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The route between Rutherglen and Exhibition Centre has re-opened following a £32m improvement project.

Winnie the Wellbeing Piano will burst into life tomorrow (Tuesday 10 May) when colleagues from Great Western Railway and Network Rail hit the high notes at Reading station.

Passengers using Lichfield Trent Valley station should plan ahead as journeys are impacted by a platform closure.

A brand-new £1.3m platform is being built at a North Lincolnshire station as part of a significant project to reinvigorate passengers’ experience and make train travel more attractive.

• Rail industry seeks to make people smile and encourage help-seeking behaviour during Mental Health Awareness Week
• Brighter Journeys campaign will be rolled out across railway stations from 9-31 May in partnership with Chasing the Stigma
• The campaign hopes to lift peoples’ spirits amidst rising concerns over the effect of the pandemic, with nearly three quarters of UK adults (70%) revealing their mental health has been negatively impacted by the coronavirus   

For the first time since 2005, a freight train carrying Welsh timber left Aberystwyth as part of a trial that could see regular freight traffic return to the Cambrian line.

Final preparations are underway to install a new landmark railway bridge in Birmingham which will become the longest single-span railway structure in the West Midlands.

Better journeys are in store for passengers travelling between London and the East Midlands, with key work to upgrade Bedfordshire’s railway taking place this weekend.