Network Rail to spend �135m on Bank Holiday schemes

More than 800 railway improvement projects are planned by Network Rail during the two bank holidays in May, when a total of �135 million will be invested. Most of the work takes the form of ‘normal’ weekend engineering overnight, when few passenger trains are running. Disruption of a different kind will affect various English operators next week, when drivers’ union ASLEF stages further strikes in its continuing pay dispute. As before, this will be a series of ‘rolling’ strikes, affecting different groups of operators each day.