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Train services are running normally again through Bath and Wiltshire following two weekends of upgrade work in the area, including track renewal, drainage improvements and a range of maintenance work.

Members of the public are invited to a drop-in event later this month to find out more about the work taking place at Tackley station in Oxfordshire which will make it fully accessible for the first time.

• Big-screen special effects experts lend their cutting-edge skills to help teach the South West schoolchildren about rail safety
• Each week, 77 children put themselves at risk of harm on Britain’s railway
• Schools are getting innovative new hard-hitting films ahead of rail safety becoming a compulsory part of the national curriculum later this year.

Passengers at Tilehurst station are enjoying step-free access to all platforms for the first time after Network Rail installed three new lifts.

New research released today reveals dangerous overconfidence is putting people’s lives at risk when using railway level crossings in the south west.

Trains have resumed on the North Devon line following Network Rail’s eight-day track renewal in the Crediton area.

Trains are running again between Plymouth and Totnes this morning after Network Rail completed an extensive upgrade of River Plym bridge.

Network Rail and Samaritans are launching the Small Talk Saves Lives campaign today (Thursday 5 March) as passengers in the west are reminded that even small interactions can make a huge difference.