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Network Rail’s leadership team in Swindon has marked national Mental Health Awareness Week by signing a pledge with the charity, Mind, to raise awareness of mental health issues in the workplace and encourage all those affected to seek help.

Passengers travelling through South Wales and the south west over the spring bank holiday are being advised to check before they travel as Network Rail carries out essential work to install and test part of a new signalling system for the Bristol area.

Rail passengers can look forward to better journeys as Network Rail’s work to improve and upgrade the railway in the Thames Valley and south west continues over the spring bank holiday weekend (28-30 May).

Fans of the famous Flying Scotsman are being urged to keep off the tracks and enjoy a safe day out when the recently renovated locomotive travels from London Paddington to Salisbury this weekend.

Residents in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, are reminded that Dodington Road bridge will be temporarily closed from Monday 23 May to enable Network Rail to carry out work in preparation for the arrival of a new fleet of electric trains.

Corsham residents are invited to attend a drop-in event to find out more about two railway improvement projects in the town as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Passengers and residents in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, will soon benefit from a more reliable level crossing on Alstone Lane as Network Rail prepares to carry out a full renewal of the crossing’s equipment.

Network Rail and Great Western Railway thanked passengers and lineside neighbours today for their patience following the completion, on time, of railway improvement work in the south west and Thames Valley.