We invested £1.2bn in upgrading the East Coast Main Line to allow more trains to run and deliver quicker, more reliable journeys. #EastCoastUpgrade
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ALT A photo of a young child looking out of a train window at the passing scenery.
ALT Work taking place as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade
ALT Work taking place as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade
ALT A black and white artists drawing from 1847 of the front of Huddersfield Station.
ALT A silver, blue and purple Transpennine Express train speeds past a golden cornfield in the countryside. The weather is sunny and the sky is blue.
ALT A photograph of a set of points in the track to the West of Leeds station after having had improvement work carried out.
ALT A photograph of the road and rail Land Rover on the railway track in front of a large sign reading Leeds East Junction. It is night time and the Land Rover has its headlights and floodlights switched on.
ALT The road and rail Land Rover runs through a deserted platform 8 at Leeds Station during the night time.
ALT A Land Rover vehicle, fitted with road wheels and rail wheels, runs along the railway track through platform 8 at Leeds Station during the night. The station is empty, apart from an out of service train parked overnight in the background.
ALT New railway electrification gantries being installed between Manchester and Stalybridge.
ALT Overhead electric wires being upgraded above the railway at Leeds Station while a Northern train passes behind. Candle House, a tall cylindrical building, is in the background.
ALT Overhead electrification components being fabricated at our Gascoigne Wood facility near Selby.
ALT An engineer installs overhead electric wires above the railway.
ALT An illustration on a turquoise background featuring several landmark buildings from Yorkshire and Lancashire, surrounded by Pennine countryside together with a TransPennine Express train, a Northern train and a freight train. All of this sits within an orange upturned engineer’s hard hat.
ALT Ed Akers, Network Rail’s Principal Programme Sponsor for the East Coast Upgrade with the glass trophy for the Major Project Award at the Railway Innovation Awards.
ALT An elevated view of London Kings Cross station, taken in Spring 2021, with engineers working to the left, replacing track and components as part of the major Kings Cross Remodelling project, whilst an LNER and Great Northern train pass to the right hand side.
ALT A ceremonial ribbon is cut on the brand new platform at Stevenage a year ago today.
ALT An engineer with their back to the camera stands in front of the new railway tunnel at Werrington.
ALT Two trains on the East Coast Main Line cross over the new railway tunnel at Werrington.
ALT A photo of the second track being installed on a curve parallel to the first one at Werrington.
ALT Engineers install the new railway track at Werrington as an East Midlands Railway train passes in front.
ALT The very first locomotive to run through the new tunnel at Werrington is seen inside the tunnel.
ALT The very first locomotive to run through the new tunnel at Werrington emerges from the tunnel into daylight.
ALT Engineers walk along the newly installed track inside one of the entry and exit ramps to the tunnel.
ALT Engineers walk next to the newly installed track inside one of the entry and exit ramps to the tunnel.
ALT A track laying machine installs new sleepers and railway tracks while an LNER train heading to London speeds past on the existing track to the left.
ALT A close up of sleepers stacked up on the track laying train.
ALT The track laying train lowering sleepers to the ballast on the ground and laying the steel rails in place over them.
ALT An engineer checks the gauge of the new track that has been installed.
ALT A line up of Thameslink, Hull Trains, Grand Central and LNER trains at London Kings Cross station.