The next Cotswold Line station in line for improvement work is Kingham, where foundations for a new waiting room are being prepared.

Cotswold Line train operator GWR is extending penalty fares for passengers found travelling without tickets to apply to journeys made from the stations on the route that are staffed, or have ticket machines, from Monday, April 1.

Famous Great Western Railway Castle class steam locomotive No 7029 Clun Castle will turn back the clock when it powers two forthcoming excursion trains on the Cotswold Line.

Train serices operated by Great Western Railway and West Midlands Railway in the Worcester area will be altered due to engineering work all day on Sunday, February 17, with revised timetables in operation.

Passengers who use Worcester Foregate Street station can have their say about a £1m plan to redesign the booking hall and install automatic ticket gates on Friday, February 15.

Construction of the new waiting room at Moreton-in-Marsh station is now complete and it is expected to open to passengers shortly.

Christopher (Archie) Dryburgh, the afternoon shift booking office clerk at Moreton-in-Marsh station, died suddenly at his home in the town on December 8.

Work to extend platforms at the main stations along the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester is running on schedule.

Cotswold Line passengers are being warned to plan ahead if travelling during the Christmas and New Year period.

A nine-day closure of the Cotswold Line between Moreton-in-Marsh and Worcester during work to lengthen station platforms began on Saturday, November 17.