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• Delay minutes down 86% on Network Rail’s Anglia route
• Number of cable theft incidents affecting rail services down 82%
• Network Rail and BTP will continue to work to reduce incidents further

Delay minutes to trains down 66%

Number of cable thefts affecting rail services down 82%

Compensation cost falls by £714,000

Delay minutes to trains down 44% to around 202 hours

Number of cable thefts affecting rail services down 64%

Compensation cost falls by £375,000

31 incidents of cable theft on East Midlands Route in 2012/13

Delay to passengers and equates to 219 hours

Compensation cost tops £1m

• Delay minutes down 41% on Network Rail’s Wales route
• Number of cable theft incidents affecting rail services down 45%
• Network Rail and BTP will continue to work to reduce incidents further

• Delay minutes down 22% on Network Rail’s Western route
• Number of cable theft incidents affecting rail services down 72%
• Network Rail and BTP will continue to work to reduce incidents further

Amateur and professional photographers across the West Midlands are being invited to enter their best images of the British landscape and the UK rail network in the annual “Take a view - Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards”.

Amateur and professional photographers across the North West are being invited to enter their best images of the British landscape and the UK rail network in the annual “Take a view - Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards”.