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• Birmingham New Street station was the best performing station in England, recording a 26% growth in sales on last Christmas
• Network Rail reports 9.5% sales growth across its managed stations over the festive period
• 32% of total station users – almost 34 million people across Britain - visited a station retailer between 19 November and 24 December

• Edinburgh station sales up 41% on last Christmas
• Network Rail reports 9.5% sales growth across its managed stations over the festive period
• 32% of total station users – almost 34 million people across Britain - visited a station retailer between 19 November and 24 December

• 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

Danny-Boy Hatchard, Robbie Williams, Lorraine Kelly and Soccer AM’s John Fendley supporting charity tea and chat.

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.

• 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

• 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

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.