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Get back on track: Students encouraged to give Network Rail apprenticeships a try: Apprentices on track-2

Get back on track: Students encouraged to give Network Rail apprenticeships a try

Thursday 14 Aug 2025

With A-Level results day here, Network Rail is encouraging young people to consider apprenticeships as a valuable and rewarding alternative, offering real career opportunities and practical experience in a key industry.

Britain’s rail network will be open for business over the August bank holiday but passengers asked to check before travelling: Network Rail engineer cropped

Britain’s rail network will be open for business over the August bank holiday but passengers asked to check before travelling

Friday 25 Jul 2025

The vast majority of the rail network will be open for business over the August bank holiday, so passengers can make the most of the long summer weekend to visit friends and family and travel to the hundreds of events taking place across Britain.

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Get back on track: Students encouraged to give Network Rail apprenticeships a try: Apprentices on track-2

Get back on track: Students encouraged to give Network Rail apprenticeships a try

Thursday 14 Aug 2025

With A-Level results day here, Network Rail is encouraging young people to consider apprenticeships as a valuable and rewarding alternative, offering real career opportunities and practical experience in a key industry.

A new era of accessibility comes to Abergavenny: AbergavennyAFA (5)

A new era of accessibility comes to Abergavenny

Thursday 14 Aug 2025

Abergavenny station has taken a major step forward in accessibility and inclusivity with the opening of a brand-new footbridge; the first in the station’s history to provide step-free access between platforms.

Engineering work to affect trains between Swindon and Gloucester: A tamping machine at a track renewal site

Engineering work to affect trains between Swindon and Gloucester

Wednesday 13 Aug 2025

Network Rail will complete essential engineering work on the Golden Valley line later this month that will impact passengers between Swindon and Gloucester.

Level crossing in Saddleworth to temporarily close this month: Moorgate Halt level crossing

Level crossing in Saddleworth to temporarily close this month

Wednesday 13 Aug 2025

Moorgate Halt level crossing in Uppermill, Saddleworth will temporarily close from Saturday 30 August for six months as part of the multi-billion-pound Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).

Huge steel beams arrive for railway bridge renewal over M6 in Penrith: A still of a steel section being lifted onto tressels

Huge steel beams arrive for railway bridge renewal over M6 in Penrith

Wednesday 13 Aug 2025

Major sections of a replacement railway bridge which will take the West Coast Main Line over the M6 are arriving on site ahead of its complete overhaul next year.

Safety staff patrolling West Midlands stations to help keep passengers moving: Safety patroller at a West Midlands station-2

Safety staff patrolling West Midlands stations to help keep passengers moving

Wednesday 13 Aug 2025

Station safety teams are being used in the West Midlands to help resolve issues before they can delay passengers' journeys.

TEN DAYS TO GO: Buses replace trains across Berkshire, Surrey and Hampshire over August Bank Holiday: Guildford Station

TEN DAYS TO GO: Buses replace trains across Berkshire, Surrey and Hampshire over August Bank Holiday

Wednesday 13 Aug 2025

Buses will replace trains on the lines surrounding Guildford over the August Bank Holiday weekend Saturday 23rd August – Monday 25th August while vital engineering improvements are carried out on the South Western Railway network.

TEN DAYS TO GO: Buses replace trains between Barnes and Kew Bridge for upgrade works on Barnes Bridge: Bale of straw under Barnes Bridge

TEN DAYS TO GO: Buses replace trains between Barnes and Kew Bridge for upgrade works on Barnes Bridge

Wednesday 13 Aug 2025

South Western Railway passengers on the Hounslow Loop should be aware that buses replace trains between Kew Bridge and Barnes will be closed between 23 and 31 August while we complete vital strengthening works on Barnes Bridge.