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Blackford’s level crossing will close for eight days as vital improvement work gets underway this month.

Engineering work to install state-of-the-art digital signalling will close sections of the East Coast Main Line between London and Peterborough for two weekends and two working days in February.

Network Rail is reminding passengers to plan ahead and check before travelling as major upgrades to signalling at the southern end of the East Coast Main Line will see changes to services across multiple dates in February 2024.

Network Rail has thanked customers travelling between Eastleigh and Fareham for their patience while emergency works to stabilise a cutting took place.

A section of Royal Terrace in Linlithgow will be closed for two weeks to enable Network Rail to raise the height of the railway boundary wall.

Scotland’s Railway has brightened up Keir Hardie Memorial Primary School’s playground as part of their ongoing partnership.

The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is close to reaching the halfway mark of its ambitious aim to take on 590 apprentices across the rail upgrade between Manchester and York, via Leeds and Huddersfield.

The completion of the multi-million-pound transformation of the Ebbw Vale line has been celebrated, following the introduction of direct train services between Ebbw Vale Town and Newport.