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Reading station turns 185-years-old this week, having opened its doors in 1840 as a temporary terminus for Brunel’s Great Western Railway while engineers continued building the line to Bristol, the eventual final stop on the line. Passengers are invited to join the station team and community members from 3pm-5pm today (Friday 28 March) to mark the occasion, with live music and a railway-related exhibition as the star attractions.

London Waterloo is best performing station for back-to-back quarters as sales increase +47%

Resilience work on the Devon cliffs between Dawlish and Holcombe to help protect the iconic coastal railway line has now been successfully completed.

Network Rail engineers will be busy carrying out a range of projects across the Wales & Borders route over Christmas – but the good news for passengers is that the work is scheduled to take place when the railway is closed.

Network Rail is urging drivers to ‘Wise Up, Size Up’ and take better care on the roads as it emerged several of Britain’s most bashed bridges are on the South Wales Main Line.

• New figures released by Network Rail show that a bridge in Twerton, a suburb of Bath, was the tenth most-struck bridge in the UK over the past year.
• The bridge was struck 10 times, resulting in over 12 hours of disruption caused by the collisions.  Bridge strikes at the location were up by over 300% on the previous year, when vehicles struck the bridge a total of three times.
• Network Rail urges lorry drivers to ‘Wise Up, Size Up’ by knowing the height of their vehicles and choosing suitable routes before they head out on journeys.

Delay minutes at Cardiff Central station on days when there are major events at the nearby Principality Stadium are down 44 per cent so far in 2024 compared with last year.

This World Mental Health Day (10 October 2024), Network Rail has announced a new milestone with its Rail Suicide Prevention Programme as almost 1,500 interventions have been made across Network Rail’s Wales and Western region.