Media centre

Responding to the Office of Rail Regulation’s draft determination for control period 5 (2014-19), a Network Rail spokesperson said: “We welcome today's draft determination from the Office of Rail Regulation setting out their proposals for the funding and investment the railway will need for the five years to 2019.

Network Rail will shortly start rebuilding Finedon Station Road bridge as part of a £70m investment to speed up journey times on the Midland Main Line between London and Sheffield.

Network Rail has been helping to improve habitats for slow worms in Beeston as part of a project to upgrade the railway in and around Nottingham. Working in conjunction with Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust at Beeston Sidings Nature Reserve, which neighbours the track, staff from Network Rail and the project team have volunteered to improve the habitat for slow worms on the site.

Passengers are being urged to find out more about how major improvement work on the West Coast Main Line in Lancashire will affect their journeys next month.

A refurbished historic footbridge at Chester railway station is to be officially re-opened by Network Rail on Thursday, 6 June 2013.

Adaptions have been made to Network Rail’s fleet of Class 57s in the south to allow them to rescue failed electric multiple units.

Network Rail is working on a £2.98m project to improve access for passengers at Chippenham railway station.

Network Rail invested more than ever before (in cash terms) – some £14m a day (£5bn for the year) – in renewing and expanding Britain’s railway in 2012/13, the company announced today in its full-year financial results.