📺 Who's watching the
#Eurovision
final tonight?
Throwback to last year's celebrations at
@NetworkRailLIV
, where we welcomed tens of thousands of fans as Liverpool hosted on Ukraine's behalf. 🇺🇦
Thank you for making the historic event so memorable:
👉
📣 Industrial action by ASLEF union will mean reduced train services in England today.
This may also affect some cross-border services into Wales and Scotland.
Please check
@nationalrailenq
before you travel:
➡️
We're already gearing up for another lot of planned engineering works, over the late May bank holiday. 🔧
🔌 Some of our planned works involve installing new overhead line equipment:
➡️
#BankHolidayTravel
#MayRailWorks
A rare visitor to the station overnight: one of the rail grinding trains that works to keep the rails themselves in the best condition for trains to run along them.
Find out more about our track maintenance trains at
📣 Remember - industrial action means reduced train services in England until Saturday 11 May.
This may also affect some cross-border services into Wales and Scotland.
Please check
@nationalrailenq
before you travel:
➡️
Happy 86th birthday to Leeds City station, which opened in May 1938. 🎈
To celebrate, take a look at some of the major station improvements we’ve made in recent years – all designed to improve your experience 💗 :
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👷 We carried out vital work to make the West Coast Main Line over the bank holiday weekend.
Drainage work and major track upgrades will make Europe’s busiest mixed use railway more reliable:
👉
#WestCoastMainLine
@networkrailWCML
The
#WestCoastMainLine
was electrified 50 years ago, delivering faster, more reliable journeys for passengers.
Since then, we've gone even further by investing in more upgrades to improve services - part of our plan to grow the economy and future-proof our railways.
📣 Travelling this week? Industrial action by ASLEF union will mean reduced train services in England until Saturday 11 May.
This may also affect some cross-border services into Wales and Scotland.
Please check
@nationalrailenq
before you travel:
➡️
Who's been lucky enough to spot the
#FlyingBanana
recently? 🍌 👀
We love these pics from
@susan_chrich
at York! 📸
The New Measurement Train monitors and records track condition information at speeds of up to 125mph:
👉
#NewMeasurementTrain
🥳🎈 Did you know Manchester Piccadilly station is 182 this year?
The station officially opened back in 1842, helping Manchester play a vital part in the industrial revolution.🐝 💙
Find out about the history of the station:
➡
@NetworkRailMAN
📣 Check before you travel 6-11 May
❗ Due to industrial action by ASLEF union, there will be reduced train services between 6-11 May
🚨 Avanti and LNWR services will be impacted today 8 May
📲 Plan ahead
@nationalrailenq
£75m worth of projects across Britain. ✅
Building two new stations, in Essex and Cambridge. ✅
Track renewals, junction upgrades and more. ✅
👀 Check out our
#WeekOnTheNetwork
early May bank holiday special. 🎬
#WeekOnTheNetwork
#MayRailWorks
Our teams carried out 487 essential projects this early May bank holiday. 👷♀️ 🛤️ 🏗️
All to give you a safer, more reliable and modern railway. 💝
Here's some of what we got up to over the weekend:
👉
#MayRailWorks
📷 🙌 This aerial shot of Dumfries station.
Footbridge and lifts installation work, completed using a 500-tonne crane and a 110-tonne crane to lift the superstructure into place.
#Dumfries
#Aerial
📣 Travelling this week? Industrial action by ASLEF union will mean reduced train services in England until Saturday 11 May.
This may also affect some cross-border services into Wales and Scotland.
Please check
@nationalrailenq
before you travel:
➡️
This bank holiday weekend we're refurbishing a junction between East Tilbury and Stanford-le-Hope
The junction takes freight trains on the branch to/from a major port, and it's crucial for reliability on
@c2c_Rail
Here are some photos from the first shift ⬇️
#MayRailWorks
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👷🚧Our
#MayRailWorks
are well underway!
⚒️Yesterday our teams working between
#Micheldever
and
#Winchester
dug up the old rock bed the tracks sit on, ready for a brand new one to be laid 🪨🛏️
This will give passengers smoother, more reliable journeys✅