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• Passengers using the West Coast main line between Crewe and London Euston should plan ahead if using the railway during the government’s Christmas travel window between 23 and 27 December
• People should reserve seats on long distance trains, travel at quieter times and follow all safety advice to stop the spread of coronavirus
• Railway improvement work is taking place to improve future journeys on one of Europe’s busiest mixed-use passenger and freight routes

Passengers were kept safely on the move over a track fault thanks to innovative use of a GoPro camera by Network Rail workers.

Unsightly graffiti around London Euston is being removed as part of Network Rail and HS2’s war on railway vandalism.

Network Rail has announced major upgrades on the West Coast main line and at London Euston in spring/summer 2021.

Passengers are being thanked for their patience after a major overhaul to Tamworth station’s lifts.

An exhibition has opened for passengers at London Euston explaining the fight of a pioneer for race equality who overturned a racist recruitment policy at the station in the 1960s.

Volunteers from the rail industry have repaired a memorial garden honouring the victims of a level crossing accident on the West Coast main line more than 50 years ago.

A Grade-II listed statue of railway pioneer Robert Stephenson has been removed and put into safe storage while Euston station undergoes its major HS2 redevelopment.