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.

Brand new, easy-to-use cycle racks have been installed at Liverpool Street, increasing capacity for bikes at the station by 25%.

• 78% of people living in the Eastern region say their mental health has been negatively impacted by the pandemic
• Network Rail launches new ‘There is Always Hope’ campaign with national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma

• 78% of people living in the Eastern region say their mental health has been negatively impacted by the pandemic
• Network Rail launches new ‘There is Always Hope’ campaign with national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma

A vital project to protect the future of the railway from Oxted in Surrey to Uckfield and East Grinstead in Sussex continues with important bridge repairs and a new lick of paint.