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  • London Northwestern Railway offers free travel for military personnel and veterans for Remembrance Services

    Veterans and serving military personnel attending this year’s Remembrance Sunday services can travel for free with London Northwestern Railway (LNR).
    The offer applies to those attending the Submariners’ Remembrance Service over the weekend of 31 Oct – 1 Nov as well as all services of Remembrance on Sunday 8 November, including the national service at the Cenotaph in London.
    Free travel is

  • West Midlands Railway offers free travel for military personnel and veterans for Remembrance Services

    Veterans and serving military personnel attending this year’s Remembrance Sunday services can travel for free with West Midlands Railway (WMR).
    The offer applies to those attending the Submariners’ Remembrance Service over the weekend of 31 Oct – 1 Nov as well as all services of Remembrance on Sunday 8 November, including the national service at the Cenotaph in London.
    Free travel is availa

  • Christmas travel: plan your journey as Birmingham New Street prepares for major upgrade

    Passengers planning Christmas journeys to, from, or through Birmingham New Street can now check festive timetables and alternative travel arrangements ahead of a major railway upgrade.
    No trains will serve the station from Thursday 24 December to Monday 28 December 2026 inclusive while Network Rail begins a £13m programme to replace overhead power lines which date back to the 1960s on the appro

  • West Midlands Railway launches new station libraries

    West Midlands Railway (WMR) is encouraging customers to spend their train journeys reading by launching a book borrowing scheme at three stations.
    In the West Midlands, the National Literacy Trust reports that just over a third of children and young people (34.4%) say they enjoy reading in their free time, and only 1 in 5 (19.0%) read daily in their free time.
    The new bookcases feature a mi

  • Work to start on new lifts and footbridge ahead of step-free Wellington journeys

    Passengers at Wellington station will benefit from easier, step-free journeys as work begins work on a major accessibility upgrade next month.
    Funded through the Department for Transport’s Access for All programme, and delivered by Network Rail, the scheme will provide two new lifts and a new footbridge, creating an accessible route between both platforms and the station entrances.
    Work will

  • Worcester to Hereford upgrades mean October half-term journey changes

    Passengers travelling between Worcester and Hereford are being advised to plan ahead while Network Rail carries out five days of essential railway improvements this October half-term.
    From Monday 26 to Friday 30 October, engineers will renew and maintain sections of railway between Worcester and Hereford to help keep services running safely and reliably.
    The five-day programme includes renew

  • London Northwestern Railway introduces new Standard Plus ticket

    Passengers travelling with London Northwestern Railway (LNR) will soon have the chance to travel in an exclusive carriage on board thanks to the launch of a new Standard Plus ticket.
    The operator, which runs thousands of services every week connecting London with the West Midlands and North West, has recently introduced a brand new fleet of electric trains which have significantly increased cap

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