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Christmas shoppers keep station retailers on track
- Network Rail reports 9.5% sales growth across its managed stations over the festive period
- Edinburgh Waverley, Birmingham New Street and Leeds stations performed particularly well, with 10 stations recording double-digit sales growth
- 32% of total station users – almost 34 million people across Britain - visited a station retailer between 19 November and 24 December
Join Samaritans and celebrity friends for a 'Brew Monday'
Danny-Boy Hatchard, Robbie Williams, Lorraine Kelly and Soccer AM’s John Fendley supporting charity tea and chat.
Christmas starts now for 24,000 railway engineers after successful delivery of £100m upgrade work
More than 24,000 members of Network Rail’s orange army are heading home for a belated Christmas after an intensive, but very successful ten days of railway improvement work.
Network Rail and Chiltern Railways open ground-breaking new rail line connecting Oxford city centre and London
• Completion of the central Oxford-Marylebone route is the first new rail link between a major British city and London in more than 100 years
• Service expected to see over 850,000 journeys per year to/from Oxford station.
• Latest segment of Britain’s Railway Upgrade Plan - delivered on time and on budget
• Scheme conceived by Chiltern Railway to provide flexibility and choice for customers - then delivered by its partner Network Rail
Meet the reindeer event at Paddington Station ahead of Christmas upgrade blitz
- Station users invited to live reindeer event at London Paddington on Monday 12 Dec
- Network Rail will be investing £103m in improving and upgrading the rail network over Christmas
- Passengers advised to plan ahead as work on a number of major projects will begin early on Christmas Eve
Competition and contestability review to be chaired by Professor Peter Hansford
Network Rail announced today, Wednesday 7 December, that Professor Peter Hansford is to chair an independent review into all barriers that prevent alternative project delivery models.
The announcement follows a speech last week by chief executive Mark Carne where he pledged his commitment to removing any barriers to competition in all elements of delivering projects.
Response to UK government announcement re reform of rail
Network Rail has provided a response to the UK government's announcement today.
Network Rail to open its doors to competition and contestability
Network Rail is to set up an independently chaired review to help the company break down the barriers to competition in all elements of delivering projects, Mark Carne, chief executive of Network Rail announced today.
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