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Train passengers were today urged to plan their journeys and check before they travel ahead of essential railway improvements in London over four Sundays from the end of January.

• Edinburgh station sales up 41% on last Christmas
• Network Rail reports 9.5% sales growth across its managed stations over the festive period
• 32% of total station users – almost 34 million people across Britain - visited a station retailer between 19 November and 24 December

Network Rail has started the next stage of its project to electrify the line between Kettering and Corby as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan.

• Network Rail reports 9.5% sales growth across its managed stations over the festive period
• Edinburgh Waverley, Birmingham New Street and Leeds stations performed particularly well, with 10 stations recording double-digit sales growth
• 32% of total station users – almost 34 million people across Britain - visited a station retailer between 19 November and 24 December

Gates will be installed at a pedestrian level crossing at Halesworth station, Suffolk to make the crossing safer as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Cambuslang Road in Rutherglen will close for 14 weeks from February 20 while Network Rail engineers carry out work to repair and strengthen the railway bridge over the A724.

Network Rail and the British Transport Police are warning pedestrians in Chiswick, West London, not to risk their lives at level crossings after footage emerged of pedestrians running across Grove Park level crossing as a train approached.

Network Rail and the British Transport Police (BTP) are warning pedestrians not to risk their lives at level crossings after shocking CCTV footage (available for download) emerged of two incidents of dangerous misuse at level crossings over the last month.