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The rail network reopened on time this morning after £30m of rail improvements were completed over the bank holiday weekend.

Network Rail will start work to implement a permanent repair to the railway embankment between Farnham and Alton on 5 September, following the landslip at Wrecclesham that closed the railway for nearly three weeks in April this year.

Network Rail engineers will shortly start work to demolish and rebuild the bridge over the railway at Station Road in Shotts.

Two-thirds of a brand new concourse at Britain’s fourth-busiest railway station opened to passengers today (Monday, 29 August), in time for commuters returning to work from the late August bank holiday.

• New Kent-bound platform opens as Network Rail completes all North Kent line work at Abbey Wood
• Network Rail now focused on building the new Elizabeth line tracks and platforms

Network Rail is beginning a £1.4m upgrade to extend the platforms at Camberley station this week, allowing longer trains to call at the station as part of the organisation’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Hundreds of holidaymakers and young people have been educated on rail safety during a two-week summer roadshow along the North Wales coastline.

The railway network in the south of England is one of the most congested anywhere in Europe – as passengers know only too well as they stand on crowded commuter trains. In the last 20 years the number of people travelling on the rail network has doubled, and the rail network, our stations and our platforms are dealing with more passengers than they were ever designed for.