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Passengers travelling on the Great Western Main Line on 21 and 22 November are being advised to check before they travel as Network Rail carries out essential work to install and test a new signalling system at Swindon as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan.

The important role played by the railway and the women who helped keep it running during World War I is told in an exhibition which can be seen by visitors to Network Rail’s Manchester Piccadilly station until 11 December.

Network Rail has announced that services on the route between Manchester and Bolton will return to a full timetable from Monday 14 December.*

People and businesses in the East Midlands are set to benefit from Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan as the next phase of a £35m resignalling programme gets under way later this month.

Passengers travelling between Wrexham and Chester or Rhyl are advised to check before travelling this month as Network Rail carries out vital improvement work as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan.

A railway bridge which carries the East Coast Main Line through Huntingdon is set to be improved as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

• New training campus will bring together South West Trains and Network Rail staff under one roof
• Extensive training programmes for front-line staff designed to help deliver a better service for customers on the UK’s busiest railway
• First centre of its kind in the country
• Demonstration of continuing joint alliance between South West Trains and Network Rail

Network Rail chairman, Sir Peter Hendy, was given a rare treat during a recent visit to Scotland, when he visited the UK’s newest world heritage site,  The Forth Bridge.