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Wednesday 12 Mar 2003

STATEMENT TO BBC ESSEX - FENCING IN COLCHESTER

Region & Route:
| Eastern: Anglia
| Eastern
| Southern
Network Rail has a statutory duty as infrastructure owners and maintainers to ensure that suitable fencing is erected along the railway boundary. We are committed to improving the quality of fencing in urban areas where railway crime is a problem. Network Rail continues to work with the industry and local communities to prevent railway crime which poses a major hazard for railway staff and passengers. 

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Usually, there are almost five million journeys made in the UK and over 600 freight trains run on the network. People depend on Britain's railway for their daily commute, to visit friends and loved ones and to get them home safe every day. Our role is to deliver a safe and reliable railway, so we carefully manage and deliver thousands of projects every year that form part of the multi-billion pound Railway Upgrade Plan, to grow and expand the nation's railway network to respond to the tremendous growth and demand the railway has experienced - a doubling of passenger journeys over the past 20 years.

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