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• More than 200 railway workers are giving up Christmas with their families to remodel the track layout between platforms 4 and 6 as part of a project to boost reliability
• Major work will take place over 10 days, including Christmas Day and Boxing Day when there are no timetabled train services
• Changes to services from Monday 27 December 2021 to Monday 3 January 2022
• Very limited services to or from Leeds station on Sunday 2 January – passengers urged to check before travelling

Network Rail has released a series of images which show progress on the early stages of the development of the new Inverness Airport station.

While families are unwrapping presents Network Rail engineers will be wrapping up warm and working through the entire festive period to bring greater reliability to passengers on the busy London Victoria to East Croydon route.

Network Rail engineers will be making more improvements to the busy railway around Lewisham this Christmas, continuing their efforts to improve reliability at one of London’s most congested spots.

Engineers are spending their Christmases carrying out vital improvements to strengthen a railway bridge just south of Finsbury Park station, which carries the busy East Coast Main Line.

• Christmas and New Year bank holiday journeys free from disruptive railway upgrades
• Advance warning of work between 4-12 January between Milton Keynes and Rugby
• Please ‘look before you book’ to know your travel options
• By law passengers must wear a face covering unless they are exempt

Platform construction is now underway for a new railway station in Winslow in Buckinghamshire as part of the East West Rail project.

Around 200 Network Rail workers are spending this Christmas upgrading the points – movable pieces of track which allow trains to move from one line to the other – at Peterborough.