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• Industry working hard to run as many trains as possible for customers during two 48-hour RMT strikes on December 13/14 and 16/17.
• Strike action will also cause significant disruption to routes across the country on December 15.
• Scotland’s Railway will remain open when RMT members at train companies in England and Wales begin action short of a strike from December 18.

A ‘year of breakthrough delivery’ for the transformational East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) has been marked with a visit by Rail Minister Huw Merriman to London King’s Cross to see the technology and meet the people involved with making it happen.

Virtual reality is now being used by Network Rail to teach school children about the dangers of trespassing on the railway.

Strike action by rail unions means that there will be severe disruption across the rail network, with some areas of the south seeing no trains at all, during five strikes on December 13/14, 16/17, 24 December until 27 December, January 3/4 and 6/7.

Pupils from Gylemuir Primary School helped switch on the Christmas lights at Edinburgh Waverley station this week.

Rail passengers are being thanked for their patience after a freight train derailment cut off two key rail routes in Carlisle for seven weeks.

Passengers are being thanked for their patience after a key rail route was forced to close due to a major warehouse fire in Wolverhampton.

West Coast main line passengers are being warned of major delays after 25,000-volt overhead cables which power trains came down outside London Euston station.