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• Registration has opened for the biggest free wellbeing event for the rail industry, Rail Wellbeing Live (RWL) 
• Dates announced as 7-9 November  
• Over 40 pick ‘n’ mix sessions to choose from, all free to attend 
• Evening sessions for night shift workers 

Work is underway to make St Erth station in West Cornwall fully accessible for the first time.

Network Rail is reminding Reading festival-goers that Reading station will close early this Saturday evening because of industrial action by the RMT.

The new lounge, which is adjacent to the taxi rank on the upper deck at London Paddington, provides passengers who use the assistance programme with accessible wheelchair spaces, reduced mobility seating and a customer information screen.  

A Victorian brick archway and a hand grenade are among some of the unique challenges that temporarily paused progress on the major project, with round the clock shifts now set to begin. 

Buses will replace trains for four days, from Monday 14 August, on the line between Twyford and Henley-on-Thames, as Network Rail carries out vital track improvements. 

Network Rail has confirmed that the work to replace St Margaret Street Bridge in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, will now last until the end of November, following a number of technical challenges that have arisen during the course of the work.

This morning (Monday 31 July), representatives from Network Rail and train operator GWR joined the Secretary of State for Transport, the Mayor of Bristol and the Mayor of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) to open Bristol’s first new railway station in 96 years.