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New data has revealed there was a shocking 48% increase in youth trespass incidents on Network Rail routes from London Waterloo after the region emerged from the first national lockdown.

• Shocking stats¹ reveal that the lifting of lockdown in July 2020 prompted a surge in the number of trespass incidents on railways in Surrey, Hampshire and Dorset
• Network Rail and British Transport Police urge parents to discuss rail safety with their children before British Summer Time starts
• New safety film – Parallel Lines- will be broadcast into schools on 18 March by Network Rail’s education partner LearnLive

Earth beside the Chiltern main line in Warwickshire has been secured from landslips to provide more reliable journeys for passengers.

Rail users in the south east will be able to travel more reliably as a three month project to upgrade the track and points at Slade Green junction have been completed.

New data has revealed there was a shocking 38% increase in youth trespass incidents in South East London and Kent after the region emerged from the first national lockdown.

• Shocking stats reveal that the lifting of lockdown in July 2020 prompted a surge in the number of trespass incidents on the railway in the South East
• Network Rail and British Transport Police urge parents and carers to discuss rail safety with their children before British Summer Time starts
• New safety film – Parallel Lines- will be broadcast into schools on 18 March by Network Rail’s education partner LearnLive

New data reveals shocking 38% increase in youth trespass incidents in the Anglia region after public emerged from first national lockdown.

New data reveals shocking 40% increase in youth trespass incidents after public emerged from first national lockdown

• Shocking stats¹ reveal that the lifting of lockdown in July 2020 prompted a surge in the number of trespass incidents across the rail network
• TV personality Nadia Sawalha joins Network Rail and British Transport Police in urging parents to discuss rail safety with their children before British Summer Time starts
• New safety film - Parallel Lines - launched and will be broadcast into schools on 18 March by Network Rail’s education partner LearnLive

Passenger journeys on the country’s shortest branch line are now much smoother after a track upgrade between Stourbridge Town and Stourbridge Junction.

Network Rail has completed 23-days of intensive works in the Clacton-on-Sea area to replace the Victorian signalling system with a modern, computer-based system.