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Network Rail is continuing to improve the track layout north of London on the Midland Main Line this weekend, to make space for the new Brent Cross West station. 

The Highland Council's planning committee has unanimously approved proposals which will see a new railway station built at Inverness Airport.

Oxford station is set to be transformed thanks to a £69m funding boost to improve capacity and journey times and develop plans for a new platform and entrance which will mean more trains will be able to serve the station in the future.

• Railway improvements between London, the West Midlands, North West and Scotland are taking place between 29-31 May
• Future passenger and freight journeys will benefit from £14.5m investment
• Passengers advised to ‘look before they book’ and travel at quieter times

Unsightly graffiti on the railway in Widnes has been tackled as part of wider community clean up in Cheshire.

The largest operational mechanical signal box in the world has just had its biggest refurbishment in more than a decade with work on the 117-year-old, Grade II listed Severn Bridge Junction signal box in Shrewsbury now complete. 

Residents in Old Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, are set to benefit from a new five-hectare woodland after Network Rail sold them the land for just £1.

British Transport Police (BTP) and Network Rail have issued a stark warning after several recent incidents of trespass on a freight line in Foxhole, Cornwall.