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• Leaves on the line are no joke – Autumn is the railway’s most challenging season
• Our fleet of 25 specialist leaf-busting trains are working round-the-clock to jet wash the rails and clear leaves from the line to keep passengers moving
• This year, the fleet is expected to travel the equivalent of 12 times around the Earth

Passengers using platforms 13 and 14 at Manchester Piccadilly station will soon benefit from a revamp of the waiting area.

From Monday 16 to Friday 20 October, buses will replace Great Western Railway (GWR) trains between Yeovil Pen Mill and Weymouth while Network Rail engineers carry out work to bring smoother and more reliable journeys on the Heart of Wessex line.

A special fleet of ‘leaf-busting’ trains have started blasting leaves off the line to help keep passengers and freight moving across the West Midlands, West Coast and Chiltern main lines this autumn.

A fleet of ‘leaf-busting’ trains are now blasting leaves off the line to help keep rail passengers and freight moving across the North West this autumn.

This World Habitat Day (Monday 2 October), Network Rail is celebrating a partnership with Natural England and Somerset Wildlife Trust that’s working to restore and enhance the habitat for a rare butterfly, the Large Blue, at Welham Cutting in Somerset. 

Network Rail and its contractor Story have completed a £34m programme of works to protect a number of bridges across Scotland’s Railway.

Network Rail plans to improve accessibility for passengers at Uddingston station by constructing a new footbridge and lift system.