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Network Rail has successfully delivered a raft of engineering projects – planned in an ambitious manner to spare the public two additional weekends of disruption.

Network Rail will be returning to Melton level crossing in Suffolk on Friday 5 December 2025 to carry out essential improvement works as part of its ongoing commitment to maintaining safe and reliable infrastructure.

Passengers have been urged to plan their journeys over the Christmas period as railway engineers take on a project dubbed Britain’s biggest Christmas jigsaw.

The steel structure of a £60m new railway bridge set to take passengers on the West Coast Main Line over the M6 has now been completed ahead of installation in January.

Passengers travelling on the West Coast Main Line this Christmas are being urged to check before they travel ahead of a programme of major railway improvements.

Rail engineers are planning to upgrade the safety features of the level crossing on Meldreth Road, Cambridgeshire, as part of the wider re-signalling project over Christmas.

Network Rail will complete essential engineering work over seven days in Somerset next week, affecting passengers travelling through the Castle Cary area.

• Hourly services between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids resumed this morning, Saturday 29 November
• Speed restrictions between Gillingham in Dorset and Axminster in Devon have been removed
• South Western Railway and Network Rail would like to thank customers for their patience