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• Samaritans’ Small Talk Saves Lives campaign launches as 52% of people in the south west admit to swerving someone they don’t know to avoid small talk.

• Reading station will host a pop-up campaign event on Wednesday 6 March to get people talking.

Samaritans’ Small Talk Saves Lives campaign launches as 48% of people in Wales admit to swerving someone they don’t know to avoid small talk. 

Passengers are being reminded to check before they travel between Cardiff Central and Swansea on three Sundays in March when Network Rail will be carrying out essential track renewals.

Passengers are being urged to check before they travel ahead of Network Rail’s final phase of work to modernise signals in Devon and Cornwall and improve the resilience of the railway in the South West.

Work to build the first station in Ashley Down in 60 years has hit a “critical milestone”, according to regional Mayor Dan Norris. Funded by the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority, ‘Ashley Down Station’ is being built on the site of the previous Ashley Hill station which closed in 1964 due to the Beeching Cuts.

The completion of the multi-million-pound transformation of the Ebbw Vale line has been celebrated, following the introduction of direct train services between Ebbw Vale Town and Newport.

In February 2014, a devastating storm battered the south Devon coastline at Dawlish, cutting off the only railway line to the south west for eight weeks.

Residents are welcome to attend an event at the Hotel Victoria in Newquay on

• Friday 9 February (10am - 7pm) and
• Saturday 10 February (10am - 4pm)

when they'll be able to take a virtual reality balloon ride to ‘see’ for themselves how the Mid Cornwall Metro, funded by Cornwall Council and £50m of government Levelling Up Funding, will create a sustainable transport corridor through central Cornwall.