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Network Rail has taken the next step in building a relationship with a primary school close to their Glasgow maintenance base.

Due to RMT strike action at Network Rail’s Thames Valley Signalling Centre on Saturday 19 and Monday 21 November, Network Rail is notifying passengers on its Western route – which covers the railway and towns and communities between Penzance and London Paddington – to expect disruption and in the affected areas to check before you travel.

Passengers at Bristol Temple Meads have donated over £4,000 to TAP for Bristol, an initiative tackling homelessness in the city, by using an electronic donation point installed at the station.

Starting in December and continuing into next year, Network Rail will be carrying out vital track and embankment strengthening work on a section of the Ipswich-Lowestoft line.

School pupils in Fife are being given the chance to participate in a range of community sports thanks to a partnership between Active Fife and Levenmouth Rail Link project.

Network Rail and the British Transport Police (BTP) are issuing a safety warning following a number of concerning incidents of young children deliberately misusing a level crossing near Topsham in Devon. 

Three derailed freight wagons have been successfully recovered by railway engineers in Carlisle so major repairs can ramp up to get passengers back on the move as soon as possible.

Lines between Salisbury and Exeter St Davids are now running at full service.