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Network Rail is urging people using level crossings on the Cumbrian coast line to take care at level crossings, as a new timetable comes into effect next month.

• Network Rail is upgrading Ealing Broadway station over the early May bank holiday in preparation for the Elizabeth line
• Demolition of Platform 2/3 stairway to make way for the foundations for new passenger footbridge and lifts
• Road closure along The Broadway from 11pm on Friday 4 May to 5am on Tuesday 8 May. TfL buses on diversion
• Community drop-in session on Monday 30 April from 4.30pm to 7pm.

Network Rail engineers will soon complete the first phase in the project to electrify the railway lines linking Stirling, Dunblane and Alloa to the main Glasgow-Edinburgh route.

A new £46m train depot is to be built in Wigan as part of the Great North Rail Project.

Network Rail engineers will be working around-the-clock from mid-May to deliver a multi-million-pound upgrade to the railway between Aberdeen and Dyce.

Network Rail successfully delivered the first phase of a vital signalling upgrade in Devon and Cornwall today (23 April) which, once complete, will enable GWR to deliver more frequent services, quicker journeys and more seats between Plymouth and Penzance from 2019.

Customers are being reminded to check before they travel and plan their journeys ahead of both bank holiday weekends in May.

The second series of the behind the scenes documentary Paddington Station 24/7 continues on Monday 23 April, as staff are faced with severely disrupted services due to an attempted cable theft in the Bristol area.