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Residents across the south east are being reminded to have their say on plans for a major railway upgrade when a public consultation begins on November 5.

• Repairs to four breakwaters, which protect the coast from the force of waves, will begin in November to immediately improve protection for the Dawlish sea wall and the railway running along the coast
• The work is expected to take six months and community events will be held in Dawlish, Teignmouth and Holcombe in the coming weeks for local communities to find out more

The public are being warned that overhead power cables on line from Holytown to Midcalder junction will be live from Sunday, November 4.

Bruce Crawford, MSP for Stirling, today unveiled the plaque to mark the recent completion of the new £8m Kerse Road Bridge.

The Aberdeen-Inverness Improvement Project has launched a new partnership with Aberdeen Football Club’s Community Trust to promote rail safety to young people.

The public are being warned that overhead power cables on lines from Larbert through Stirling, Dunblane and Alloa will be live from Sunday, November 4.

Network Rail engineers will be delivering a multi-million-pound programme of enhancement and maintenance projects on the Highland main line over the next five weekends.

Today, Thursday 25 October, the first tram train in the UK entered service between Rotherham and Sheffield  thanks to a partnership between Network Rail, Stagecoach Supertram, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and the Department for Transport.