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Network Rail and Great Western Railway (GWR) hosted the first in a series of alliance roadshows at Bristol Temple Meads station on Thursday morning (21/7), giving passengers the chance to find out more about the ways in which the two organisations are working together to improve rail services for passengers.

A new dive-under at Acton, being constructed by Network Rail as part of the Crossrail programme, is now structurally complete and is on schedule to open early next year.

Pupils from St Nicolas Junior School visited the site of the under-construction Boundary Road bridge in Newbury this week (12 July) to see how their artwork was brightening up a temporary footbridge for pedestrians and cyclists and getting across an important safety message to their peers.

Network Rail’s ongoing project to electrify the Great Western Main Line is now taking shape in Bristol, with great progress being made on a number of sites in and around the city.

The new Wantage Road bridge (A338) has officially opened to motorists, pedestrians and cyclists as part of the project to electrify the Great Western Mainline.

Network Rail’s orange army will soon be starting the next phase of work to prepare the Great Western Main Line in the Newbury area for a new fleet of electric trains.

Trials of additional ticket barriers will take place at Bristol Temple Meads station in the coming weeks as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan, with the aim of easing passenger congestion during peak travel times.