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Volunteers from Network Rail teamed up with the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership and Knorr-Bremse, a leading manufacturer of rail safety systems, to improve the environment around Melksham station in Wiltshire, including the area outside the popular Melksham Hub Café.

Buses replace trains for five weeks from Monday 12 September, between Machynlleth and Pwllheli, while essential upgrades are safely carried out on the iconic northwest Wales railway bridge.

Network Rail is urging passengers to check before travelling and to plan ahead, with four consecutive weekends of disruption to train services due to start this weekend.

High above the tracks between Lydney and Gloucester, a multi-million-pound project is underway to protect the future of the railway and make passengers’ journeys more reliable. 

The railway through Dawlish is now better protected as construction of the new, bigger sea wall has reached another major milestone.

We take you behind the scenes of a year-long project on one of the railway’s most historically innovative feats of engineering.

Welsh slate aggregate is being transported to Luton via rail freight for the first time ever, thanks to a joint initiative between Network Rail, construction materials company Breedon, and the Welsh Government. 

Network Rail is teaming up with the British Transport Police (BTP) and Festival Republic, the organisers of this weekend’s Reading Festival, to set up a safe space at Reading station as part of a campaign against sexual violence.