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Network Rail pleaded guilty and were fined £4.1 million including legal costs. [109] [110] In December 2005, two young girls were killed by a train as they were crossing the railway line via a pedestrian level crossing at Elsenham in Essex. Network Rail was prosecuted for breaching health and safety law and fined £1 million in March 2012. The ...
The Network Route Utilisation Strategy (Network RUS) is a Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) produced by Network Rail (NR). The Network RUS is one of only two (the Freight RUS is the other) which have the perspective of the network as whole; most of NR's RUSs are geographical, mainly regional, in nature. Uniquely the Network RUS is divided into ...
These additions came amid a £4.4 million station improvement programme covering both Kent and south-east London, headed by both Southeastern and Network Rail. [15] In late 2023, Southeastern introduced digital season tickets, referred to as sTickets, enabling customers to purchase and store season tickets on their smartphones.
In July 2023, RDG announced proposals for the closure of many ticket offices across the network. [36] [37] Several organisations spoke out against this change; Disability Rights UK raised concerns, stating: "The outcome will reduce confidence in the whole railway system and end the ability for far too many Disabled people to travel by rail at all."
Updated plans for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail have been announced by the Government in its Integrated Rail Plan.
The Western Rail Access Programme is a scheme under development by the DfT, Network Rail and local authorities near Heathrow Airport to develop a direct rail link to the airport from the west. At present passengers travelling from the west of Airport Junction need to change trains at either Hayes and Harlington or Paddington which are to the ...
Northern, the rail operator of trains in the north of England, submitted plans to improve services by 2027 with aims to get cancellations down to 2 per cent and rail punctuality above 90 per cent.
[66] [67] [68] Network Rail said that there would be significant disruption over at least a five year period. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] However, in an order under the Transport and Works Act 1992 (TWAO) published in March 2021, it was said that work on some of the scheme would extend beyond 2029 i.e. into a later Network Rail Control Periods , CP8. [ 71 ]