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• The Met Office has issued multiple weather warnings for high winds across Britain on Friday (24 January).
• Areas in Northern England, Northern Wales and Scotland are expected to bear the brunt of the storm
• Heavily impacting services on both the East Coast and West Coast Main Lines

Passengers using the East Coast Main Line are being reminded to plan ahead and check before they travel ahead of two consecutive weekends of planned engineering work, starting this Saturday. 

Passengers are reminded that a programme of vital engineering upgrades on the East Coast Main Line will disrupt services over the next two weekends.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. Since the first passengers travelled by train, rail travel has boosted our prosperity and enhanced the quality of our lives.

HS2 staff and contractors are pictured here celebrating this national milestone on a newly built section of Colne Valley Viaduct, the longest railway bridge in the UK – almost a kilometre longer than the Forth Bridge in Scotland. 

Passengers are reminded to plan ahead as essential upgrades on the Hull to Scarborough line will disrupt services through Driffield.

• Dave Hooper will join as Managing Director, Southern region on 1 May 2025
• He replaces Ellie Burrows who moves to become Managing Director of Eastern

Six weekends of major engineering work in the North East will see huge strides made in Darlington station’s £140m regeneration.

From Saturday 22 February to Friday 28 February, train services will change on the West of England Line between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction, with no trains calling at Sherborne or Templecombe stations all week, while Network Rail complete vital improvements to the railway in the Gillingham area.