NETWORK Rail will be visiting Royal Wootton Bassett tomorrow to outline revised plans for the closure of three railway bridges.

The work around three bridges in Royal Wootton Bassett will allow the new high-speed electric trains coming to the Great Western Railway to pass underneath with their overhead power lines.

Network Rail will be demolishing and rebuilding the Marlborough Road/Broad Town bridge from March 2016, but have announced work on the A3102 Bath Road bridge that was due to begin this winter has been delayed by 12 months.

This, they say, will allow them more time to complete a temporary link road between the two bridges, which will prevent a 35-mile diversion. The road will not open to traffic until work begins on Marlborough Road next year.

Network Rail said that work on the road was currently underway, but has been delayed by land negotiations, awaiting permission to cross a watercourse and the relocation of great crested newts on the site.

Work is also to be carried out on the listed Hunts Mill bridge, but engineers will be lowering the track there to create the additional space needed, rather than raising the bridge.

An information event for residents will take place tomorrow between 4pm and 7pm at the town’s Lime Kiln Leisure Centre.

Members of the Network Rail project team will be on hand throughout to explain the plans and to answer any questions.