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Passengers will benefit from improved reliability on journeys through Cornwall after Network Rail completed a programme of work to upgrade Ponts Mill viaduct near St Blazey. 

Trains between Gloucester and Chepstow are back up and running this morning (Saturday 17th May) after Network Rail successfully completed five days of non-stop work alongside the Severn Estuary in Gloucestershire.

Passengers are being advised to plan ahead during June with train services affected through South Gloucestershire and the Severn Tunnel while vital maintenance takes place over a two-week period.

The Newquay Strategic Route – a new road to improve transport links and unlock economic growth in Newquay – has opened to the public, with Network Rail’s new bridge over the railway now in use.

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.