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Consultation confirms overwhelming support for new rail link to Heathrow from the West
- 72% of people who responded to the consultation support the potential new rail link from Reading and Slough to London Heathrow Airport
Two new railway lines into Bristol Temple Meads completed to help improve passenger journeys
This morning (Monday 3 December) Network Rail successfully completed the installation of two new railway lines between Filton Abbey Wood and Bristol Temple Meads – doubling the number of lines into Temple Meads from two to four.
Westbury residents invited to find out more about track renewal work at drop-in session
Residents of Westbury in Wiltshire are invited to a drop-in session on Wednesday 5 December to find out more about upcoming work to renew the track at Westbury North Junction to improve safety and reliability.
Passengers on the Great Western Railway urged to plan ahead this Christmas and New Year
- Engineers to work around the clock this holiday season to modernise the network
Local MP and councillors visit signal box as upgraded signalling is delivered in Cornwall providing benefits for passengers
A Cornwall MP and local councillors visited Roskear signal box near Camborne station on Friday 16 November to celebrate the completion of a £30million upgrade to signalling in Devon and Cornwall that will improve reliability and increase services in the south west.
Railway in Devon to be closed tomorrow morning owing to extreme weather
Passengers in the south west are being advised to check before they travel tomorrow morning with no services running through Dawlish and Teignmouth in Devon owing to expected extreme weather.
Network Rail secures £2.4billion funding to provide a better railway between London Paddington and the west
Network Rail has secured a budget of more than £2.4billion to provide a safer and more reliable railway for passengers travelling from London Paddington to the west.
Dawlish drop-in session provides insight into plans to protect vital railway artery to the South West
Network Rail’s South West Rail Resilience Programme held its first community drop-in session last week (Tuesday 30 October) to update residents and the local community on ongoing work to improve the resilience of the railway between Dawlish and Teignmouth in Devon.
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