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Bristol-based Network Rail apprentice, Patrick Buckle, is encouraging people to apply early as the company's popular and award-winning Advanced Apprenticeship scheme opens for applications. 

Network Rail has advised train passengers to check before they travel as Wales, northern England and western Scotland brace for the arrival of Storm Gertrude.

Passengers using Reading station are now happier with their experience than they were a year ago, according to the National Passenger Survey.

Cardiff school children have learned about the dangers of the railway as Network Rail presses ahead with the electrification of the South Wales Mainline – a critical part of its Railway Upgrade Plan to provide better, more reliable journeys for passengers across Britain.

Passengers travelling to and from Chippenham station will now find their journey a much easier experience after a new footbridge and lifts were officially opened by Network Rail today, Friday 22 January, as part of the company’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Network Rail’s orange army will be carrying out work this summer to greatly improve reliability for passengers by tackling the almost yearly problem of flooding on the railway line that runs through Hinksey near Oxford.

Passengers travelling on the Great Western Main Line over the weekend of 23-24 January are being advised to check before they travel as Network Rail carries out the penultimate stage of a major signalling upgrade at Swindon as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan.

Royal Wootton Bassett residents are invited to attend a drop-in event to find out more about the latest plans to prepare three bridges in the town for the arrival of a new fleet of electric trains.