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• Passengers should only travel if necessary on Saturday 1, Wednesday 5 and Saturday 8 October during national strike action
• A special, severely reduced timetable will operate along the East Coast Main Line between 7:30am and 6:30pm
• Passengers should plan ahead between Saturday 1 and Sunday 9 October, know their last train times and expect disruption

• Passengers should only travel if necessary on 1 and 8 October during national strike action
• Further action on 5, 6, 7 and 8 October will also affect EMR services
• Passengers should plan ahead, know their last train times and expect disruption

• Rail passengers will not be able to travel north of York on Saturday 1 October or north of Newcastle on Saturday 8 October amid national strike action
• Passengers should plan ahead between Saturday 1 and Sunday 9 October
• A severely reduced timetable will operate on Wednesday 5 October between 7:30am and 6:30pm

Network Rail has completed essential safety improvement work to the iconic low balustrade wall at Sydney Gardens in Bath, including the installation of railings to prevent trespassers from being able to gain access to the track.

• With the RMT, Aslef and TSSA coordinating strike action on Saturday 1 October, only around 11% of services will operate, and there will be no trains at all across significant parts of the country
• Trains that do run will start later and finish much earlier than usual, so passengers are asked to only travel by rail if absolutely necessary. Those who must travel should expect disruption, plan ahead and check when their last train will depart
• Train drivers at 14 operators are also walking out on Wednesday 5 October, meaning disruption for passengers on those routes
• The RMT is then staging another walkout on Saturday 8 October
• Timetable for the Aslef strike on 5 October will be published on National Rail Enquiries later this week, while the timetable for Saturday 8 October will be published early next week

Work to demolish the old station platforms at Cameron Bridge is now complete.

Some of Network Rail’s busiest London stations have teamed up with housing and homelessness charity Shelter to help people sleeping rough.

Network Rail thanks customers for their patience after five days of work protecting the railway from landslips on the West of England line between Axminster and Pinhoe.