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As Birmingham’s famous Christmas market opens for another year, the region’s railway is ready to help get passengers safely to and from festivities and celebrations. Information for journalists, press, bloggers and the media about Network Rail. Contact the press office to receive news, updates, press releases, videos, pictures, and ...
Regulator confirms Network Rail's £43.1bn 2024-29 funding plans
Tuesday 31 Oct 2023. Regulator confirms Network Rail's £43.1bn 2024-29 funding plans Region & Route: National. After more than two years of industry and stakeholder engagement and analysis, the Office of Road and Rail (ORR), the independent regulator that oversees Network Rail's activity, today announced its final determination.
Passengers and freight at the heart of new £44bn, five-year plan …
Friday 19 May 2023. Passengers and freight at the heart of new £44bn, five-year plan for our railway Region & Route: National. Network Rail today published its £44bn, five-year plan (2024-29, Control Period 7 – CP7) for the railway in England and Wales that sees increased investment in tackling climate change, improving train performance from current levels, investing in …
Network Rail’s £4bn train control systems framework to …
Apr 10, 2024 · The framework runs from 2024 until 2034 and is worth £4bn (£3bn = digital signalling and £1bn = conventional signalling). The contracts have been awarded over two lots: Lot 1: Conventional signalling. Alstom. AtkinsRealis. Hitachi. Siemens. Lot 2 – Digital signalling (using European Train Control System technology) Alstom.
New figures highlight Network Rail’s commitment to small and …
1 day ago · About Network Rail. We own, operate and develop Britain's railway infrastructure; that's 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations.We run 20 of the UK's largest stations while all the others, over 2,500, are run by the country's train operating companies.. Usually, there are almost five million journeys made in the UK ...
Ten-year deal powers Britain’s biggest rail electrification programme ...
Network Rail has awarded EDF Energy a ten-year deal for the supply of low carbon electricity to power Britain’s growing electrified rail network. The contract will see EDF Energy, the largest producer of low-carbon energy in the UK, supply around 3.2TWh of electricity a year, powering a network which carries 3m passengers and tens of ...
Network Rail and CP6 – looking back on five years of change
Mar 25, 2024 · Control Period 6, or CP6, is the rail infrastructure manager’s sixth, five-year funding period, which started on 1 April 2019 and will finish on 31 March 2024. During this time, Network Rail has successfully delivered major rail upgrades across Great Britain to improve the railway for its passengers and freight users, while navigating unprecedented change inside and outside the railway.
Network Rail in exclusive discussions with consortium on deal to ...
Jan 24, 2023 · In a project launched two years ago, Network Rail has now entered exclusive discussions with a private sector consortium to upgrade the railway’s ageing telecoms infrastructure. The parties expect to reach an agreement by mid-2023. The consortium is a partnership between two private sector businesses – both market leaders in the development ...
Five-year investment plan for ‘Backbone of Britain’ railway revealed
May 19, 2023 · About Network Rail. We own, operate and develop Britain's railway infrastructure; that's 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations.We run 20 of the UK's largest stations while all the others, over 2,500, are run by the country's train operating companies.. Usually, there are almost five million journeys made in the UK ...