RAIL passengers are being advised to plan their journeys ahead of the upcoming May bank holiday engineering works on the West Coast Main Line.

Work will take place to replace sections of track and overhead electric cables and maintain bridges, tunnels and trackside equipment on the route between London Euston and Cumbria.

The line is Europe’s busiest mixed-use (freight and passenger) railway line and is used by millions of passengers every year.

Robert Nisbet, regional director for the Rail Delivery Group, which represents the railway, said: “This vital engineering work is part of the plan to add more services, improve punctuality and make journeys better, and as fewer people travel on bank holidays than on a normal weekday, we’re keeping disruption to a minimum."