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• First time Network Rail SME spending has exceeded £2.5bn in a single financial year
• In 2019-20, Network Rail spent 35.6 per cent of its expenditure with SMEs
• Network Rail ahead of government target to spend 33 per cent of expenditure with SMEs by 2022

• As lockdown eased earlier this year, trespass incidents on the railway increased 
• More than 5,000 trespass incidents recorded between June and September 2020 
• September 2020 was the worst September in five years, seeing a 17% increase on same time last year 

Network Rail are continuing to replace wheel timbers in most urgent need of replacement across four bridges in the vicinity of Manea, between Ely and Peterborough.

Worn out track is planned to be renewed during a nine-day closure of the East Suffolk line to improve reliability and provide passengers with an improved journey experience.

Network Rail will be extending the platforms at St James Park and Lympstone Commando as well as improving track between Exeter and Exmouth over half term week 25 – 30 October

An exhibition has opened for passengers at London Euston explaining the fight of a pioneer for race equality who overturned a racist recruitment policy at the station in the 1960s.

The latest stage in extensive recovery and reinstatement works has begun following the Stonehaven derailment on August 12.

• Customer facing staff working in the UK experience over 400 abuse incidents every day and rising [i]
• 43% of shop workers say they have been threatened with physical violence. 1 in 5 mention the use of a knife [ii]
• 70% of front line rail staff have experienced workplace violence in the last 12 months [iii]