Eight-year-old Alessia, a pupil at Allscott Meads Primary School in Telford, has won a competition to name the railway’s latest safety mascot – Choo Choo the safety dog.
Great Western Railway (GWR) is urging passengers planning to travel between Bath and Bristol on Monday, Tuesday and/or Wednesday next week to check their journeys in advance, as trains will not be running as usual.
From Wednesday 28 October until Sunday 1 November, trains will not run between Redhill in Surrey and Tonbridge in Kent while Network Rail engineers carry out emergency work to prevent a serious landslip.