Fares underpin investment in better services
Today, we are living through the biggest investment in the railway since the Victorian era and it is delivering:
Better trains and new services | Great North Rail Project |
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Rolling out over 7,000 new carriages, supporting 11,300 extra services a week by 2025. Hundreds of fully refurbished trains will also be rolled out on routes across Britain. |
A multi-billion-pound programme of upgrades to better connect towns and cities across the North of England. |
Thameslink Programme | Central belt improvements |
Bringing a new tube-frequency service through the centre of London, better connecting communities from Cambridge and Peterborough all the way to Brighton. |
The Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Project, increasing capacity and decreasing journey times. |
We've been investing to improve for many years
This has enabled train companies to run over 4,400 extra services a day than compared to 1998 – a 28% increase. The frequency of services on many key long-distance routes into the capital has doubled since the mid-1990s.
Elsewhere
Leeds to Huddersfield to Manchester |
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33 more services a day
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Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh |
25 more services a day
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Leeds to Edinburgh |
13 more services a day
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Safety has been transformed
Following a spate of tragic accidents at the turn of the century, our passengers and our people now travel and work on one of the safest railways in Europe.