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People from Aspley Guise and surrounding villages including Woburn Sands, Ridgemont and Lidlington will have the opportunity to give their views on how railway crossing safety can be improved in their area by attending two public consultation events.

Hundreds of thousands of passengers and freight users are benefitting today after more than £100m of investment and improvement work was completed successfully – on time and on budget – across Britain’s railway over the Easter period.

The West Coast main line fully reopened on time today (Tuesday 7 April) after Network Rail successfully completed the latest phase of upgrade work at Watford.

Network Rail has issued West Coast Railways with a suspension notice with effect of Friday 3 April.

The bridge over the railway on Harcombe Hill in Winterbourne reopened today, Thursday 2 April, after work to prepare it for electrification was completed on time. This stunning time-lapse photography shows the scale of the project and the level of work involved.

An application for permission to build a new section of rail that will allow European-style Tram Trains to run between Britain’s rail and tram network for the first time has been submitted to the Secretary of State for Transport.

Passengers are being advised to check before they travel on the West Coast main line this Easter as Network Rail continues its programme of investment and improvements.

Network Rail will be continuing its investment and upgrade of the railway in the north west over Easter – which will mean changes to train services in the city and surrounding area.