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Network Rail unveils multi-billion pound plan for the railway route from Waterloo station to the south coast
- Around £2bn planned spend up to 2024 on one of the UK’s busiest stretches of railway
- Increase of 22% in funding to help reduce delays and improve reliability for Southampton passengers
- More opportunity for third party investors in Hampshire, making more projects possible
Network Rail sets out £multi-billion plan for a bigger and better railway in the Anglia region
Network Rail’s Anglia route has set out its plan to invest more than £2 billion to enable more trains, faster services and better connections, while maintaining the performance, resilience and reliability of the rail network across the region in the five years from 2019-2024.
Five-year, multi-billion pound plan for ‘Backbone of Britain’ railway unveiled
- Preparing for increased demand in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester
- Over £5bn on vital operations, maintenance and asset renewal activities in five years to 2024
- All while the new HS2 London-Birmingham railway line is constructed. m railway line is constructed.
Network Rail sets out five-year plan for the South East’s rail network
A £3.5bn plan to operate, maintain and renew the South East’s congested rail network over the next five years has been published today by infrastructure owner and operator, Network Rail.
Network Rail to undertake tender exercise to appoint new legal panel from 1 April 2019
The infrastructure company, which owns, manages and develops Britain’s railway, currently uses a panel of four full-service law firms and a couple of specialist firms across its national portfolio of work. The legal team of 26 lawyers, led by group general counsel, Stuart Kelly, will be running a procurement exercise for the new panel which will begin in April 2019.
Network Rail reveals significant investment, more services and fewer delays in its five-year plan
- Continued significant investment in five-year period from 2019 with record expenditure of up to £47bn
- Big increase (25%) in funding to reduce delays and improve infrastructure reliability
- Around 1,000 extra services per day by 2021
- The plan ushers in the railway’s digital age
En Vogue – fashion and luxury brands set to open at London Bridge
- Ted Baker, Mac, Cath Kidston, Hamleys, Rituals, and The Body Shop all to open soon
- New retail offer forms part of £1billion redevelopment of the station
- London Bridge will have more retail units than any other Network Rail station
Love is in the air at London Paddington
A special Valentine’s Day event will take place at Paddington station on Wednesday, 14 February to celebrate improvements to Brunel’s iconic station, as well as the £7.5bn route modernisation that will transform journeys across the West, and provide thousands more seats to and from London Paddington.
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