Electrification works are due to begin next month at a train station in Falkirk, Network Rail has announced.

Engineers will install electrification mast foundations in the memorial garden at Polmont station as part of the £742 million Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP).

The project is due to begin on Saturday, 02 April.

Network Rail said the memorial plaque and bench will not be affected, while a section of the garden to be disturbed will be fully reinstated on completion of the project.

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The memorial commemorates the events of July 1984, when a train derailed near the station fatally injuring 13 people.

Part of the garden is to be temporarily removed to allow installation of the foundations for an electrification stanchion.

Rodger Querns, Programme Director for EGIP, said: "We are fully aware of the sensitivities around undertaking work adjacent to this important memorial to the tragic events that occurred near the station in 1984. We will deliver this project as quickly as we can, with minimal disturbance, and are committed to fully reinstating the garden as soon as possible."

"This work is vital to the electrification of the Edinburgh-Glasgow line and some disruption to the garden is unavoidable."

(LM/CD)