OREANDA-NEWS. Transparency is a key theme within Network Rail’s five-year strategic business plan. Being more open and accessible will make Network Rail more accountable to the travelling public, taxpayers and politicians.

Mark Farrow, head of transparency for Network Rail, said: "We're continuing to publish more information as part of our commitment to being more open and transparent, and to better explain what we do, how we do it and why.

We know that people are interested in how money is spent within the rail industry.  Being more transparent about this will help us become a better, more efficient and responsive organisation and it will make us more accountable to the people who use and fund our network. We recognise that there is more to be done and we are committed to making transparency part of everything we do at Network Rail.”

Highlights of the new categories published today include:

  • Payments for disruption on the railway made under schedule 8
  • Income from toilets at Network Rail managed stations
  • Alliance agreements
  • Our performance under Freedom of Information
  • Historic delay attribution data

A further 34 existing categories have been refreshed with new data.

About Network Rail

Network Rail owns, manages and develops Britain’s railway – the 20,000 miles of track, 40,000 bridges and viaducts, and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations (the largest of which we also run). In partnership with train operators we help people take more than 1.6bn journeys by rail every year - double the number of 1996 - and move hundreds of millions of tonnes of freight, saving almost 8m lorry journeys. We’re investing ?38bn in the railway by 2019 to deliver more frequent, more reliable, safer services and brighter and better stations