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• 135 people slipped, tripped or fell at Liverpool Street station in the last year
• Second highest number of incidents among London railway stations and station comes third in national table after Leeds and Paddington
• Campaign reminds passengers to take extra care when travelling after a night out

A new campaign encouraging people to take extra care in London’s railway stations has been launched today.

A new campaign encouraging people to take extra care on their way home after a night out has been launched in Leeds today after figures revealed more than 170 people have been hurt in the last year through slips or trips at the station.

Major improvement work on the West Coast Main Line at Watford will get underway in 2014 to improve the punctuality of train services on Britain’s busiest mixed-use railway line.

Twenty six of England's rarest and best preserved signal boxes have been given Grade II listed status by the Department for Culture Media and Sport as a result of a joint English Heritage and Network Rail project to safeguard the nation's railway signalling heritage.

The first week of the work to rebuild the railway around Nottingham is coming to an end, with the project running well on time and significant progress made.

Punctuality on the railways reached 91.1% during period 4, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail.

A factory on rails – the first of its kind to be used on Britain’s railways – will slash years off the time it will take to electrify the Great Western main line.