Network rail CP5 2014 - 2019

I was reading the network rail CP5 documents stating what network rail would like to do to improve the UK's Railways from the period of 2014 to 2019. As a result Network rail have produced some worth reading figure such as;

• Since 2002/2003 passenger numbers have increase from 976 million to 1.46 billion in the year 2011/2012

• The cost of the UK railways have reduced from the year 2003/2004 hen it was £8.82 per km for each train and in 2013/2014 it has reduce to £4.15 per km 

• Average passengers arriving on-time has gone from 773 million in 2002/2003 to 1.302 Billion passengers in 2011/2012 

• Freight is expected to rise 30% in the period between 2012 and 2019 

• The average cost of a ticket was £5.06 in 2003/2004 and is now £5.21 in 2013/2014. The amount of money that is spent by network rail is also stated showing that in 2003/2004 network rail spent £3.57 per £5.06 ticket and it shows that in 2013/2014 it will be reduce to £1.62 per £5.21 ticket

• That there is now 7.2 million trains running in 2012 rather than the 5.9 million in 2002.

• That the northern hub project would generate £4 for every £1 invested .

• There has been a 50% reduction in train accidents and network rail aims to make this figure Zero!

• That there is now 170,000 seats at peak times.

• 1,000,000 lorries off the road as a result of freight on the railways.

This all makes some interesting reading for the next control period from 2014 to 2019