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• People who must travel over the Early May Bank Holiday should check their journeys and plan ahead.
• Essential work to upgrade the track will affect services in Yorkshire on Sunday, 10 May, with no trains able to call at Wakefield Westgate station.
• A reduced timetable continues to be in operation for those who rely on rail services.

Network Rail and Great Northern are urging passengers to continue following Government advice and only travel if they need to over the Early May Bank Holiday weekend.

Proposals for a new railway station in Soham have taken a step forward with the submission of an application to East Cambridgeshire District Council for permission to build the station.

Network Rail and street artist Lionel Stanhope have teamed up to pay tribute to our NHS heroes with a mural in a railway arch in Southwark.

Network Rail will be carrying out essential maintenance and upgrade work on the West Coast Mainline over the weekends in May to improve journeys for passengers.

Network Rail is working hard to keep supermarkets supplied with food by working with suppliers on two new food routes from Valencia and Murcia into London.

Huge sections of a concrete railway flyover are being lifted out by some of the largest cranes in Europe to build the first direct rail link between Oxford, Bedford, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury in more than 50 years.

Findhorn viaduct at Tomatin, near Inverness, was lit-up blue to show solidarity with key workers and front-line NHS staff all across the country.