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School children were given potentially life-saving lessons at the grounds of Shrewsbury Town FC as they learned about rail safety and the dangers of trespassing on tracks.

Network Rail is seeking to recruit 22 young people from the south west for its award-winning apprenticeship scheme, as it continues the largest investment into the railway since Victorian times.

Network Rail will be improving the level crossings at Llanelli station as part of work to provide a safer and more reliable railway for passengers and communities in Wales.

Wolvercote residents are invited to attend a drop-in event to find out more about the work in their area to upgrade the railway line between Oxford and Bicester.

Secretary of State for Wales, Stephen Crabb MP and Wales Office Minister Alun Cairns visited the Wales rail operating centre in Cardiff today to see how state-of-the-art technology makes running the railway more efficient and reliable for passengers.

People across the west, south west and Thames Valley can learn about and have their say at a series of public exhibitions being held this month, on plans for a new link connecting the railway into Paddington from the west with London Heathrow airport.

On the first anniversary of the notorious storms at Dawlish, time-lapse photography shows the extensive work undertaken by Network Rail’s ‘orange army’ over the last year to restore the south west’s rail connection and make the area more resilient for the future.

The footbridge over the railway at Templars Firs reopened yesterday, Monday 2 February, after work to prepare it for electrification was completed on time.