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The vast majority of the rail network in Sussex will be open for normal Christmas and New Year train services and passengers can travel with confidence with rigorous and extensive cleaning regimes in place.

A major package of rail improvements is set to be carried out over the Christmas period to improve punctuality of services and reduce the number of delays on rail services across the region.

Rail passengers using services in the South East can now check if their journeys over Christmas and the New Year will be affected by engineering works which will be taking place at Lewisham, New Cross and Slade Green.

Passengers in South West London and Hampshire are reminded to plan ahead with Network Rail set to carry out improvement work over Christmas and new year to maintain and upgrade the railway for passengers

Network Rail has joined forces with national conservation charity The Tree Council to plant more than 80,000 trees and hedgerows across the country this winter, as part of a four-year, £1 million tree planting pledge.

Work is well under way to refurbish the footbridge at Goring-by-Sea station and provide a safer way of crossing the railway as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Rays of purple light are beaming from King’s Cross railway station today (Thursday, 3 December) as the rail industry joins the global #PurpleLightUp movement and celebrates the contribution of disabled people around the world.

Birmingham New Street’s highly successful Christmas Eve meal for the city’s homeless is returning this year – but with a difference.