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Passengers are being asked to check before they travel between Bangor and Holyhead on four weekends in April and May when Network Rail will be carrying out essential track renewals.

With a £2.6 billion, five-year funding package for Control Period 7 (CP7), Network Rail’s Anglia route is today (3 April 2024), embarking on a rail improvement plan aimed at delivering a simpler, better, greener railway that provides the best level of train performance possible.  

Network Rail has today (Wednesday, April 3) announced the start of its five-year investment plan to deliver a safe, green, reliable railway for Scotland’s passengers, freight customers and taxpayers.

£27m is to be spent by Network Rail to improve drainage on the East Midlands’ rail network, helping to prevent major disruption brought to passengers by landslips and heavy rain.

£60m is going to be spent improving drainage on the rail network in Yorkshire and the North East to help prevent major disruption brought to passengers by landslips and heavy rain, and to increase safety.

Network Rail today announced the start of its five-year, £45.4bn* rail improvement plan aimed at delivering a simpler, better, greener railway that provides the best level of train performance possible and that’s more geared-up than ever before to cope with the extremes of climate change.

Passengers and local residents in Lostwithiel will soon be able to enjoy uninterrupted access over the railway for the first time in more than 50 years with Network Rail set to install a temporary footbridge at the station.

The line between Tonbridge and Redhill will be closed for at least two weeks while Network Rail undertakes urgent repairs to the embankment that carries the railway.