Train services at Cotswold Line stations will be amended from Monday, March 23, due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Due to the deteriorating conditon of the running-in nameboard at Pershore station, the CLPG has commissioned a replacement.

The new Worcestershire Parkway station will open on Sunday, February 23, the county council has announced.

A proposal to invest £200m in further improvements to the Cotswold Line, to allow extra trains to run between Oxford and Worcester by 2025, has been sent to the Department for Transport.

West Worcestershire MP Harriet Baldwin has secured a House of Commons adjournment debate in Westminster Hall on Wednesday, January 22, about the Cotswold Line.

Late-night trains on the Cotswold Line will be affected by engineering work from Sunday, January 26, until Thursday, January 30.

In addition to the regular shutdown of GWR services on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, Cotswold Line trains will be altered on Christmas Eve and Friday, December 27.

The opening of the new Worcestershire Parkway station has been delayed until early 2020, just days before it was set to see its first passengers.

Ascott-under-Wychwood residents will once again be able to benefit from special Saturday stops at the village's station to go shopping in the run-up to Christmas.

High water levels on the River Avon at Evesham have forced the closure of the Cotswold Line between Moreton-in-Marsh and Worcester on Friday, November 15.