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Great Western Railway (GWR) is warning passengers that track and signal improvement works will affect journeys through Oxford for nine days from this weekend.

Great Western Railway is celebrating the start of the summer holidays by again inviting customers to take a unique journey to Dartmouth – via train, steam railway and boat.

Great Western Railway is urging rail users to have their say on a public consultation which would see ticket office staff moved to other areas of the station where they can be closer to customers and better placed to help.

Strike action by the RMT will affect GWR services and other train operators across the country on Thursday 20, Saturday 22 and Saturday 29 July.

Great Western Railway is warning customers heading in and out of London for this weekend’s big-ticket music events it expects trains to be busier than usual, with no additional services operating after 2300.

Proposals would see staff move from behind ticket office windows to help customers elsewhere on the station

• Cwmni Great Western Railway yn nodi pen-blwydd y GIG yn 75 oed drwy enwi trên arbennig
• Aneira Thomas, y baban cyntaf a anwyd yn y GIG, yn dadorchuddio’r trên â’i enw newydd yng Nghasnewydd
• Y trên yn galw yn Swindon i ddathlu rôl Cronfa Feddygol GWR yn y gwaith o lunio’r GIG
• Y trên yn mynd ymlaen i Lundain Paddington lle bydd staff o ysbyty St Mary ac Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Gofal Iechyd Imperial College yn cwrdd ag ef

• Great Western Railway marks 75^th anniversary of the NHS with special train naming
• Aneira Thomas – first baby born on the NHS – unveils new named train at Newport
• Service then calls at Swindon – celebrating the role of the GWR Medical Fund in shaping the NHS
• Train continues to London Paddington where it is met by staff from St Mary’s Hospital and the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

First passenger services at Marsh Barton station start tomorrow (Tuesday 4 July), becoming Exeter’s ninth railway station.

Chippenham station is now fully accessible following the completion of a £1m scheme which has brought a lift into use on the northern side of the railway.

Great Western Railway is celebrating the 150^th anniversary of the Marlow Branch Line with a special livery on one of its trains.

Track upgrades will affect train services between Bristol Parkway and Gloucester on four successive weekends during July.