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Three Week Closure Along West Coast Main Line This August

Network Rail engineers will be improving the railway during a three-week closure through Stockport this August.

Northern has announced that it will be naming a train after Rob Burrow, rugby league legend and Motor Neurone Disease (MND) campaigner.

Network Rail has altered their plans for the new accessible footbridges at Pensarn and Prestatyn following public feedback from drop-in sessions.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has opened an investigation into a near miss at Norwood Junction station on Tuesday, 1st July 2025.

Work on the new Devon station, Okehampton Interchange, has been ongoing for the past six months.

Work on the new Devon station, Okehampton Interchange, has been ongoing for the past six months.

Track re-laying at the Mor Brook bridge site on the Severn Valley Railway has been completed ahead of the full reopening later this week. Flying…

Improvement work on the Limpley Stoke railway bridge has been started by Network Rail.

This August Bank Holiday (23rd and 24th August), the Corris Railway Society Model Railway Exhibition will be making a return.

The Rail Delivery Group is conducting the largest survey of passengers ever undertaken into their views on Britain’s railway network.