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A range of improvements will make the passenger station experience better at London Liverpool Street including more ticket gates new retail units and a new Greater Anglia ticket office on Platform 10.

Alarming CCTV has been released to urge people to stay off the railway as thousands of people across the East Midlands risk their lives each year.

Alarming CCTV has been released to urge people to stay off the railway after more than 2,600 incidents of trespass in the last year across Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and the North East.

Network Rail is urging people to stay off the tracks and not put themselves and others at risk new safety figures reveal that there were more than 19,300 trespass incidents on the rail network in the 2023/24 financial year – that’s one every half an hour.   

Rail passengers experiencing longer journey times between Huddersfield and Leeds over recent weeks are being thanked for their patience by the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).

Entrants to a Fife-based photography competition were celebrated recently (11 July) at the Together Levenmouth Hub in Leven.

Crucial railway engineering work is taking place to the north and south of Oxford at the end of July, while the station expansion scheme also continues with platform construction and signalling.

Following the appointment of Lord Peter Hendy as Minister of State at the Department for Transport, Network Rail’s senior non-executive director, Mike Putnam, has been appointed as acting chair.