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Network Rail is stepping up its efforts to stamp out level crossing misuse at Beards Lane and Downfield, where a recent survey recorded nearly 100 incidents of misuse over a short period of two days. About 90% of the incidents reported involved young people.

Reading FC’s captain Graeme Murty has united with Network Rail to kick off this February’s half term message – mess around on the railway and risk your life.

The public has been invited to have their say on Network Rail’s proposals to beat railway crime at one of West Country’s top ten rail crime hotspots.

The Cotswold redoubling scheme, which will bring new tracks between Evesham and Charlbury, has entered the final stages of design, moving a step closer to delivering work on the ground.

Network Rail engineers have completed an intensive package of rail improvement work in Devon, prevailing over challenges posed by the victorian-era Marley tunnel and poor weather conditions.

Work has started on the £20m project to double the track at Axminster on the Waterloo - Exeter line. Engineers have started clearing three miles of railway land to make way for the new track.