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Network Rail has teamed up with City to Sea, the environmental organisation behind the award-winning Refill campaign, on an initiative that inspires passengers at Bristol Temple Meads to choose refillable bottles, helping to save an estimated 150,000 plastic bottles from ending up as waste.

Trains are running as normal between Gloucester and Bristol this morning after Network Rail successfully delivered a series of upgrades over the bank holiday weekend.

A new public piano has been installed on the main concourse at Reading station to brighten passengers journeys, thanks to a donation from the Rotary Club of Reading.

Passengers are advised to check their journeys between Gloucester and Chepstow ahead of essential engineering work in May.

Passengers are being advised to plan journeys in advance as Great Western Railway services will be affected by rail improvement works taking place throughout May in the Gloucester and Cheltenham areas. 

Passengers are being reminded to check before travelling this Easter weekend as Network Rail delivers vital upgrades and track renewals to improve train performance and reliability. 

The groundbreaking ‘hedgehog’ sleeper design, funded by Network Rail’s Wales & Western region and designed, tested and manufactured by Lankhorst Engineered Products, has been awarded the Spotlight Net Zero Pioneer Award.

Network Rail and Great Western Railway (GWR) are joining forces by bringing their Control functions together in a single, joint team to bolster collaborative working and service delivery.