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Passengers are being advised about maintenance work on lifts at Birmingham International station which starts next week.

Network Rail is asking passengers and the community to help shape its proposals to remove the UK’s most operationally challenging railway junction as a public consultation on the scheme enters its final month.

Network Rail and British Transport Police (BTP) are warning people in north Wales of the dangers of trespass and level crossing misuse after a surge of incidents with several people caught risking serious injury or worse on camera.

A shocking near miss with a group of walkers not far from Sevenoaks in Kent has sparked an appeal from Network Rail for people to take care around pedestrian crossings over the railway.

A new temporary cycle storage facility is to be built next to Bristol Temple Meads station to allow for work on the £24 million roof refurbishment project to begin.

Network Rail has installed anti-trespass signs in Sleights to remind walkers not to trespass on Thistle Grove railway bridge, after 23 incidents have been caught on camera in the area since May. 

Network Rail will be working around-the-clock to repair flood damage on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line near Polmont.

Today, Teignbridge District Council approved Network Rail’s plans for the remaining section of the new sea wall at Dawlish, which will provide increased protection for the railway from extreme weather and rising sea levels for generations to come.