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Plans for a Forth Bridge visitor centre and bridge walk experience moved a step closer to reality today with Network Rail’s proposals gaining planning permission from City of Edinburgh Council.

Network Rail will be working around the clock between Welshpool and Newtown this Sunday to make some emergency repairs to an embankment on the railway following storm damage caused by the recent extreme weather.

Passengers using Leeds railway station have helped to prevent over 1000 single-use plastic bottles* from being used through utilising a water refill point which was installed last month.

Emergency work to secure a landslip hit section of the West Coast main line near Warrington has successfully reopened the railway for passengers a day ahead of schedule.

Network Rail is to become an accredited Real Living Wage employer, ensuring that thousands of railway colleagues are paid appropriately to reflect the varied and vital work they carry out.

• Two of the railway’s most iconic feats of engineering will be celebrating their birthdays this week.
• Scotland’s treasured Forth Bridge will be celebrating the 130th anniversary of its opening.
• Whereas Wales’ landmark Britannia Bridge will be celebrating the 170th year since it went into operation.

Network Rail has laid down 1,100 tonnes of new tarmac to completely re-surface Fleet station car park improving the facility for passengers.

Emergency repairs will continue tonight to shore up a railway embankment on the West Coast main line near Warrington.