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Nearly £2m a day have been invested in improving the railway on the Western route over the last six months, new figures from Network Rail show. This brings a total of £342m worth of investment to the railways across the south west of England and the Thames Valley, benefitting key towns and cities including Swindon, Chippenham, Bath, Bristol, Kemble, Taunton and Gloucester.

Passengers in Reading are set to benefit as six new retailers set-up shop on the station's new passenger bridge in April 2014.

Network Rail's chief information officer is so concerned about the rapid slide in the number of women entering the UK's IT sector, she has launched a new competition for girls which will see the company pay the winner's first year of university fees.

The excavation of 34,000 tonnes of earth for a new rail underpass just outside Acton Main Line station has begun as part of works to prepare the route for the full arrival of Crossrail services in 2019.

Network Rail, Bristol City Council, West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and English Heritage have come together to sign a 25-year memorandum of understanding to drive the redevelopment of Bristol Temple Meads station today.

UK rapper Wretch32 and spoken word performer George the Poet have put their hearing to the test in a unique experiment as part of a new Network Rail safety campaign aimed at young men called Track Tests.

A new footpath to provide alternative access to the closed Robinswood level crossing opens to the public today, reuniting the twin communities of Tredworth and Robinswood.