Investment of £1 billion will electrify key rail routes and Arriva Trains Wales Merseyrail and ScotRail HOW WE ARE upgrade stations and tracks across the North, providing Northern Rail The electrification of the Cardiff and Valley Lines will cut space for 44 million more passengers a year, making journeys delays, provide more reliable journeys and the potential IMPROVING between major northern cities faster, quieter and more reliable. 80 for hundreds of extra peak time seats for passengers. THE RAILWAY 23% more new trains Free WiFi Merseyrail is carriages due to arrive from capability refurbishing all of its across the network December 2017 throughout all carriages IN YOUR AREA underground stations Work is taking place to maintain and improve Journeys between Leeds 7,000 extra seats including a £20 million and Manchester reduced into Liverpool during investment in Liverpool Central the railway in and around your area. Money to pay for by about 10 minutes the morning peak More frequent and faster Station upgrades will Links between London this comes from a variety of sources including UK, journeys between North benefit passengers and South Wales will Welsh and Scottish Governments, local authorities, Journeys from Liverpool 25,000 extra seats and South Wales travelling through Cardiff Central, be improved passenger income, Network Rail and the private sector. into Manchester during and Manchester reduced by restoring the route Cardiff Queen Street, Llandudno, by electrification of the South Wales the morning peak Bike&Go scheme £1.6 million investment Improved cycle capacity As well as the significant improvements detailed in the by 10-15 minutes between Wrexham and Chester Pontypridd, Rhyl, Ystrad Mynach Main Line between the Severn Tunnel at 10 stations in more cycle parking spaces on off peak trains and Aberystwyth following pages, we are investing billions of pounds in The Bike&Go cycle hire to a double line track and Swansea, potentially making journeys faster and more frequent smaller, less visible schemes to maintain the railway. scheme will be extended across Merseyrail and Northern Rail Work to repair and replace points and tracks, maintain The North East tunnels and bridges and keep signals working can Borders Railway sometimes go unnoticed. It often happens out of the public’s sight – overnight or at weekends - but is vitally The Borders Railway will re-establish important to keeping passengers safe and making passenger railway services from trains run on time. 50% New Journey times cut Edinburgh through Midlothian to intercity fares by 13 minutes Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders for Over the next five years, passenger operators will New and extra platforms Better internet New intercity express trains New intercity As a result, over all The country’s first Standard class fares between Edinburgh and London the first time in 40 years, including the compete for franchises which cover over 60 per between any two Scottish on the East Coast Main Line by at Cardiff, Pontypridd, Caerphilly and connectivity will offer quicker and more reliable cent of the market, bringing the promise of further express trains capacity will increase tram-train will be piloted creation of seven new stations. Barry will deliver increased capacity journeys on First Great Western cities starting at £5 the new Virgin Trains franchise for all Crosscountry services improvements and innovations for passengers. will deliver faster, more reliable by 50% on the East Coast line better connecting communities and more reliable journeys travelling through Wales services to and from Swansea and more comfortable journeys between Sheffield and Rotherham EAST OF ENGLAND London and the South East MIDLANDS SOUTH WEST
The completion of refurbishments at Bishop’s Stortford, Chelmsford and First Great Western South West Trains Cambridge stations will deliver improvements such as better cycle facilities, Passengers between London, Oxford, Bristol and Cardiff will benefit from: A £210 million project will provide: clearer information screens, new ticket halls and upgraded toilets. East Midlands Trains’ passengers will benefit from the 120,000 50% electrification of the Midland Main Line which will enable more 3,900 trains to run more punctually on the line between London and Abellio Greater Anglia extra seats more capacity into London Crossrail x2 Abellio Greater Anglia is into London on the TSGN route from places Crossrail will bring an extra 1.5 Sheffield. Together with a fleet of new trains, passengers can Space for 3,900 24,000 such as Bedford, Peterborough million people within a 45 minute extra seats New station More services Capacity doubled improving hundreds of carriages during the morning peak look forward to faster, smoother, more comfortable journeys. Space for 24,000 by 2019 – a 20% increase and Sussex commute of central London into Birmingham during Faster, more Upgrades to the Reduced in the north of Cambridge to serve the growing market on Great Northern running in the region including: more passengers serving the city’s growing between Cambridge and services from Cambridge morning peak frequent services Cornwall sleeper service likelihood of power points during peak time science park Stansted airport to London by 2018 Virgin Trains with the electrification as part of major £146 million floods cutting of the Main Line improvement programme off or limiting better lighting Virgin Trains will spend £20 million on: Mainline Birmingham New Street services 1,600 More seats between London Overground A new East-West upgraded toilets The redevelopment of Birmingham by altering the profile London and Kent is extending trains and rail link of the River Exe at Improved WiFi 1,600 extra seats on weekdays 5,500 New Street station will soon be 150 By 2018 there will be 1,000 extra station platforms between Bedford and Cowley Bridge near on services between between London and the region’s major cities new carpets and high speed seats in the peak and Oxford, and Milton Keynes Improving Provide 5,500 extra seats daily completed, delivering: Exeter new carriages Peterborough and Stansted by converting some First Class carriages seat covers to meet growing demand More seats and New intercity 95,000 off-peak seats and reduce crowding, while and Aylesbury will be built stations by converting 21 First Class reliable journeys express trains on the South alongside Chiltern Railways’ West Trains route embarking on a series along its route carriages to Standard class seats A more accessible station of station improvements new Oxford to London line c2c Trains Thameslink, Southern A concourse 3.5 times London Midland bigger than before Passengers on c2c trains serving the Essex coast will see: and Great Northern London Midland passengers will benefit from: Better pedestrian links to and through the station Reopening the former International terminal at Waterloo New entrances and a new £700m MetroWest project Smartcards Automatic Increased Improved Free WiFi New timetables Staff at the 100 Free WiFi 1,400 new New, bigger All new stations Two new allowing 20 trains per public square will improve connectivity and introduced compensation capacity stations on trains and for improved punctuality and busiest stations at 104 stations carriages station at Coventry Stadium, Bermuda platforms hour on the line to Reading deliver 3,200 more peak time at stations new cross-London journeys Park and Kenilworth by 2017 across the route for registered customers at peak hour into from first to last service at Bromsgrove seats through Bristol and a new entrance at who are delayed Fenchurch Street Bristol Temple Meads