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Passengers travelling between London Euston, the West Midlands, North West and Scotland are being advised to check before they travel ahead of multi-million pound railway upgrades over the early May bank holiday.

• Network Rail is providing travel information for passengers across London over the forthcoming early May bank holiday weekend as upgrade work takes place on routes to, from and within the capital
• Euston will be most affected, with a reduced service operating on Saturday 29 and no trains to/from Milton Keynes on Sunday 30 April

Passengers travelling on the West Coast main line and North West rail routes are being advised to check before they travel ahead of multi-million pound railway upgrades over the early May bank holiday.

Network Rail engineers will be renewing track between Doncaster and Cleethorpes to boost reliability and reduce disruption. 

Direct weekday services between Glasgow and Carlisle will resume on Monday (April 24) following completion of the latest phase of the £164m project to upgrade Carstairs junction on the West Coast mainline (WCML).

Rail passengers travelling to and from London this coming weekend (22 and 23 April) are being reminded to plan their journeys in advance because planned engineering will affect Southern and Thameslink train services on several routes.

Engineers are set to start five consecutive days of vital work on the line between Norwich and Lowestoft.

London Waterloo’s 100-year-old station roof is being given a face-lift to provide a lighter and brighter welcome to the capital.