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• Annual average performance rises to 90% - the third increase in a row - making ScotRail the second best performing large operator* in the UK.

• Performance for period ten - the four weeks to 7 Jan - is 89.7%; 6% better than last four weeks and 2.8% better than same period last year.

Network Rail has today (January 12) announced that Carillion Powerlines Ltd has won the contract to deliver the electrification of the Shotts line between Holytown Junction and Midcalder Junction.

Network Rail is advising passengers who park at Bolton station that there will be alterations to car parking later this month.

Network Rail engineers successfully demolished and took the first steps to reconstruct the bridge over the railway on Station Road in Shotts over the weekend

Network Rail engineers successfully demolished and took the first steps to reconstruct the bridge over the railway on the A71 in West Calder over the weekend.

A third of a tonne of clay, thought to be 54 million years old, has been un-earthed from beneath London Bridge station and turned into art inspired by the rail network and the station that is used by 54 million passengers each year.