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• Record £4.1bn spend on projects to improve the railway.
• Exceptional safety record continues.
• Reliability and performance of infrastructure assets continue at historically high levels.
• Cost efficiencies remain challenging.
• Train performance below industry expectations owing to increased congestion and severe weather events.

Network Rail will carry out £500k of repair and strengthening work to Chalkwell station footbridge, starting from Monday 9 July.

Network Rail will partner with the Scottish Football Association to deliver a series of football camps across central Scotland with the aim of getting young people to stay safe around the railway.

Network Rail reconfirmed its pledge to the armed forces community by re-signing its Armed Forces Covenant on Reservists Day.

Work is taking place along the Cumbrian coast to protect the railway from the seas which constantly batter the line.

Network Rail, Northern and West Yorkshire Combined Authority are working together to carry out major improvements to Hebden Bridge station as part of the Great North Rail Project.

Temperatures approaching 50 degrees Celsius are usually reserved for Death Valley in California or certain parts of the Middle East - not the north of England.

In a bid to see new ideas, greater efficiencies and more investment in the railway, Network Rail is reviewing and amending its standards, practices and approach to risk management governing how it works with other organisations wishing to build on or near the railway. When working with Network Rail, third parties can expect to see better working practices, streamlined and consistent processes, and a slicker, less bureaucratic structure under a more consistent framework.