page_title: Network Rail
section_title: Current investment programme
hierarchical_section_title: Network Rail / Development / Current investment programme
caption_attribution_description: English: GBR rail passengers by year 1830-2016. Image produced by myself in Microsoft Excel, adding new information onto an earlier chart produced by Tompw and correcting a minor typo in the dataset (for 1846). The data comes from: ATOC's 2008 publication Billion Passenger Railway for 1830 to 2001 The UK Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), specifically Passenger journeys by sector - table for 2002-15 and [http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/23376/passenger-rail-usage-2016-17-q2.pdf Passenger Rail Usage 2016-17 Q2 Statistical Release] for 2015/16 and 2016/17 Q1 &amp; Q2. The plotted data is the sum of the "Total franchised passenger journeys" and "Non franchised" columns. From 1984 onwards, the point plotted at a given year is actually the last three quarters of the year given and the first quarter of the year afterwards. So, the point at "1985" is the year from April 1985 to March 1986.
context_page_description: Network Rail is the owner and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. Network Rail is an arm's length public body of the Department for Transport with no shareholders, which reinvests its income in the railways.
  Network Rail's main customers are the private train operating companies, responsible for passenger transport, and freight operating companies, who provide train services on the infrastructure that the company owns and maintains. Since 1 September 2014, Network Rail has been classified as a "public sector body".
  To cope with fast-increasing passenger numbers, Network Rail is currently undertaking a £38 billion programme of upgrades to the network, including Crossrail, electrification of lines and upgrading Thameslink.
context_section_description: From 1997 to 2014 (inclusive), passenger numbers have more than doubled, following little growth in the previous decades. To cope with the increasing passenger numbers, Network Rail is currently undertaking a £38 billion programme of upgrades to the network, including Crossrail, electrification of lines, in-cab signalling, new inter-city trains, upgrading Thameslink, and a new high-speed line.
caption: Rail Passengers in Great Britain from 1829–2019, showing the early era of small railway companies, the amalgamation into the "Big Four", nationalisation and finally the current era of privatisation.
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