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Firm footing to make Kidsgrove station accessible for everyone

Kidsgrove station’s multi-million-pound accessibility upgrade will ramp up from next week as work to stabilise historic mine shafts under the site gets underway.

Multi-million-pound platform access improvements for Euston passengers

Passenger access is being improved to four of London Euston station’s busiest platforms as part of a multi-million-pound improvement programme.

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Engineering firms building HS2 make skills, jobs and training pledge in London

Dec 10, 2020

The Empowering Communities initiative aims to: Create jobs and offer training for those experiencing unemployment and homelessness. Help young people to develop new science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills and access apprenticeships. Work with...

‘Sunflower’ Christmas tree highlights help for passengers with non-visible disabilities

Dec 8, 2020

Last year Network Rail launched its sunflower lanyards and ticket holders as part of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower scheme. The Christmas tree makeover is to promote that the items are freely available and that staff...

West Coast main line passengers asked to plan ahead when travelling over Christmas

Dec 7, 2020

Passengers travelling on the West Coast main line between Crewe and London Euston this Christmas are being asked to plan their journeys in advance. Over Christmas and New Year Network Rail will be carrying out...

GoPro brainwave keeps passengers moving and railway workers safe

Nov 20, 2020

Smart thinking by rail management engineer Steve Rand and section manager Scott Morrison, after spotting the cracked railway crossing on the West Coast main line south of Milton Keynes, prevented two days of delays to...

Graffiti hotspots targeted in major railway clean-up at London Euston

Nov 19, 2020

Over the next few weeks teams will be getting rid of graffiti in Camden, including on Mornington Crescent and Harlesden Bridge. The clean-up supports Transport Secretary Grant Shapps’ ongoing commitment to improve the railway for...

Passengers advised of West Coast main line and Euston HS2 upgrades in 2021

Nov 19, 2020

The work, part of Britain’s Railway Upgrade Plan and HS2 Phase One*, will make passengers’ journeys more reliable and ease pressure on the West Coast main line by adding more railway capacity. Though passenger demand...

Passengers thanked as lift upgrade completed at Tamworth station

Nov 5, 2020

An investment of nearly £675,000 saw each of the three lifts taken out, mechanisms modernised, and new lighting installed. It’s part of Network Rail and the wider industry’s priority to make stations more accessible for...

Exhibition opens into race relations railwayman’s fight for workplace equality

Oct 16, 2020

Asquith Xavier was a guard with British Rail and was denied a promotion based on the colour of his skin in 1966. Despite being the year after the 1965 Race Relations Act banning discrimination in...

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