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Network Rail is reminding passengers and road users of essential safety improvement work taking place at Oldends Lane level crossing in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire over the Early May Bank Holiday weekend.

Network Rail is urging people to follow the designated diversion route when walking between Dawlish Warren and Dawlish following several recent incidents of trespassing on the railway.

Passengers will benefit from having better access when boarding and leaving trains following the completion of upgrades to the platforms at St James Park station in Exeter.

A multi-million-pound upgrade to Theale Railway station is due to begin this year, with plans set to include:

West Ealing station has become step-free after lifts opened to customers yesterday (Thursday 25 March) providing step-free access from street to platform.

Plans to extend a rockfall shelter that will protect the only railway line into the south west for the next 100 years, have today (Friday 19 March) received confirmation of government funding.

Communities and passengers in Devon are to benefit from the reopening of the railway between Okehampton and Exeter as a result of the Government’s ‘Restoring your Railway’ initiative.

• Station improvements completed by Network Rail also include new ticket office, gatelines and customer information screens
• Large, modern ticket halls and new lifts at West Ealing and Ealing Broadway stations due to be ready for customers shortly