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Network Rail is inviting local communities in Bolton and Salford to find out more about the work required to upgrade and electrify the line between Manchester and Preston via Bolton.

Passengers are being urged to check before they travel between Newport and Shrewsbury as Network Rail embarks on upgrade works over six consecutive weekends beginning on 11 June.

Passengers travelling through Oxenholme in Cumbria will have a smoother, more reliable journey following a weekend of upgrade work by Network Rail's orange army.

Volunteers from Network Rail, Northern and Carillion joined the Friends of Guide Bridge this week to help lay the foundations for their Memorial Garden project.

Bridgend school children have been learning about the dangers of the railway through interactive sessions hosted by Network Rail this month.

Network Rail’s work to electrify the Great Western Main Line has reached two important milestones as the company announces a section of the line is to be ‘energised’ for the first time and its flagship Electrification Training Centre in Swindon is officially opened.

Old Sodbury residents are invited to attend a drop-in event to find out more about work that will soon be taking place to prepare the Great Western Main Line for the arrival of a new fleet of electric trains.

Jonathan Reynolds, MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, met with Network Rail and National Grid today (27 May) to see the electricity substation that will power the electrification of the railway in the north of England.