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Punctuality on the railways reached 84.4% during Period 9, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail.

A new CCTV and poster campaign launched today to coincide with the busy festive period aims to reduce the hundreds of incidents each year involving people slipping or falling on railway station escalators.

Network Rail has today published new and updated information on its online transparency portal: www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency

Retail sales at Britain’s biggest and busiest railway stations continue to significantly outperform the high street, latest figures from Network Rail show.

Network Rail is one of just six organisations to receive accreditation from the National Archives for its corporate archive service, which manages more than five million records from original Brunel architect's drawings to computerised reports for any one of the 5,000 railway engineering projects carried out each year.

The majority of the rail network in Scotland and the north of England has reopened this evening following the devastating impact of th e severe storm that has battered the north of the UK today with winds in excess of 140mph.

As train services in Scotland start to run again as we clear routes of debris, ensuring they're safe, and opening them up for services, preparation is now underway for the storm surge expected to hit the east of England and East Anglia tonight and into the early hours of Friday morning.

Train services in Scotland are starting to run again as we clear routes of debris, ensuring they're safe, and opening them up for services.