Last Wednesday, autistic students from a specialist school in Lancashire became station assistants and signallers for the day at Manchester Piccadilly station.
A £120,000 project, managed by Southeastern and funded by Network Rail, is allowing passengers at Eltham station to shelter in fully-enclosed waiting areas.
A pedestrian level crossing at Cornton in Stirling will be closed for three days next weekend to allow Network Rail to carry out vital improvement works.
A decade on from the storm that cut off the only railway line to south west England for eight weeks, resilience measures built since then are proving effective.