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• Network Rail will be investing £103m in improving and upgrading the rail network over Christmas

• Passengers advised to plan ahead as upgrade work means there will be no train services from Paddington main line station between December 24 and 29.

Residents and motorists will benefit from a safer railway crossing at Ufton Nervet in Berkshire as a new bridge was opened on Friday, 16 December to replace the level crossing, as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Network Rail has submitted plans to build a footbridge over the Brayford Wharf East level crossing in Lincoln city centre.

Network Rail is reminding passengers to the south and west of London to plan their journeys as early as possible this Christmas. This is ahead of a programme of upgrade work taking place on the country’s rail network over the Christmas period.

Passengers in the Sutton Coldfield area are to benefit from more than half a million pounds of investment to improve their local stations.

The first phase of work to upgrade Shrewsbury station has been completed as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan, to deliver a bigger and better railway for passengers.

Passengers in the Sutton Coldfield area are to benefit from more than half a million pounds of investment to improve their local stations.

A gang of singing railway workers today made a rowdy bid to top the Christmas pop charts.