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• Network Rail and Cycling UK partner to address these concerns with tips on safer cycle routes and storing bikes securely
• 5,000 secure bike storage spaces available at Network Rail’s 20 managed stations

Passengers are advised to check how their journey might be affected when vital rail upgrades take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend to improve reliability of services. 

Passengers travelling between Crewe and Chester are being advised to check before they travel this August during the next phase of a multi-million-pound railway bridge renewal.

Network Rail’s proposal to connect Reigate with Thameslink has received strong support from passengers and local residents following a series of drop-in information sessions earlier this year.

A multi-million-pound transformation of Tring station in Hertfordshire is now complete making it more accessible for passengers.

A team of volunteers from Network Rail have joined forces with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Resilience Forum (LRF) PPE hub to help deliver vital PPE to care homes, GP surgeries and hospices across the county.

An £81m scheme by Network Rail to renew infrastructure in the Hither Green area of South London has reached halfway and is on track to hand back a much-improved railway for passengers, while also marking the end of London Bridge Area Signalling Centre as an operational location.

The second phase of multi-million-pound work to secure land beside the West Coast main line in Stoke-on-Trent starts next month to make journeys for passengers and freight more reliable.