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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).

An underpass next to the level crossing in Smithy Bridge has been tidied and painted thanks to a group of volunteers from Network Rail, with the help of Rochdale Borough Council.

Engineering students from Elutec College, East London visited a railway control centre in Upminster today (Wednesday 18 May) to receive training from two of Network Rail’s top engineering graduates.

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

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

With the second May bank holiday coming up, Network Rail engineers are about to deliver another three days of major improvement work for passengers in the south east.

Network Rail engineers have passed another milestone in the delivery of the new, £41m Edinburgh Gateway interchange after installing the link bridge between the train and tram stations.