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Train customers in the West Midlands are being urged to plan journeys in advance and allow extra time over the festive period while work takes place to make the railway more reliable.

Three lucky children took a festive train trip with Santa on the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways on Sunday [10 December] after winning a rail safety poster competition organised by Network Rail’s local level crossing team.

Thanks to a partnership between Streets Kitchen, St Mungo's and Network Rail, London Euston station will welcome 200 specially invited homeless guests on Christmas Day. 

• Manchester Piccadilly station retail sales up 5.2% between July and September 2017 
• Food on the go leads the growth with shoppers continuing to value the station’s retail offer 
• Network Rail celebrates five and a half years (22 quarters) of consecutive retail sales growth delivering £197m in total sales for the quarter

• Edinburgh Waverley station retail sales up 6.8% between July and September 2017, a third higher than the national average
• Pubs and bars drive growth with shoppers continuing to value the Scottish capital’s station retail offer
• Network Rail celebrates five and a half years (22 quarters) of consecutive retail sales growth delivering £197m in total sales for the quarter

• Birmingham New Street station retail sales up 11.2% between July and September 2017
• Largest increase outside of London stations driven by growth in Birmingham’s food and homeware offer
• Network Rail celebrates five and a half years (22 quarters) of consecutive retail sales growth delivering £197m in total sales for the quarter

• London Bridge, Paddington and Cannon Street record strongest growth in retail sales between July-September 2017
• Network Rail celebrates five and a half years (22 quarters) of consecutive retail sales growth for station retailers
• Strong correlation between station investment and retail sales growth

Shoppers at three of the country’s busiest railway stations will be able to benefit from a free Christmas wrapping service for gifts bought in station shops.

Network Rail’s present-shaped ‘Wrapland’ pop-up stand is being gifted to Glasgow Central, London Victoria and London Waterloo stations in December, providing the three quarters of a million people who use these stations each day a chance to save precious time on wrapping presents during the busy Christmas period.