Living by the railway
Our work
- GSM-R: the railway’s mobile communication system
- Our regions
- Digital Railway
- Long-term planning
- Looking after the railway
- Asset management
- Asset Protection and Optimisation
- Bridges, tunnels and viaducts
- Delays explained
- Earthworks: cutting slopes and embankments
- Level crossings
- Our fleet: machines and vehicles
- Planned works
- Litter and fly-tipping
- Responding to weather impacts on the railway
- Signalling
- Track
- Vegetation management
- Our routes
- Anglia route
- About the Anglia route
- Improving the railway in Anglia
- Keeping our communities safe in Anglia
- East Coast route
- East Midlands route
- North & East route
- West Coast South route
- North West route
- Central route
- Kent route
- South East upgrade
- Hither Green station Access for All improvements
- Peckham Rye station upgrade
- Shortlands station Access for All improvements
- Blackheath Tunnel Upgrade
- Hungerford Railway Bridge Refurbishment
- Lewisham resignalling
- Landslip prevention works at Chislet
- Upgrading the sea defences at Folkestone Warren
- Renewing the lifts at Sevenoaks station
- Petts Wood station footbridge refurbishment
- Hastings to Tunbridge Wells, and Hastings to Bexhill line closure
- Bexley station subway
- Dartford Junction: Line closure between Dartford and Gravesend
- South East upgrade
- Sussex route
- Network Rail High Speed
- Scotland route
- Wales route
- Wessex route
- Wessex railway upgrade plan
- Heart of Wessex line upgrades
- Feltham and Wokingham re-signalling programme
- Portsmouth Direct Upgrade
- Wessex Access for All schemes
- Improving London Waterloo station
- West of England line improvements
- Island Line Improvements
- North Downs Line signalling upgrade
- Portsmouth and Portcreek area improvement work
- Staines to Windsor improvement work
- Barnes to Feltham via Hounslow Upgrades
- Berrylands Station Upgrade
- London Waterloo and Clapham Junction line closures
- Reading improvement works
- Bournemouth to Dorchester South Line Renewals
- New Malden to Twickenham Renewals
- Western route
- South West Rail Resilience Programme
- Oxfordshire Connect
- Tackley Level Crossing
- Bristol Rail Regeneration
- Dartmoor Line
- MetroWest rail upgrades
- Old Oak Common lineside logistics compound
- Devizes Gateway feasibility study
- HS2 Old Oak Common Station
- Mid Cornwall Metro
- The Portishead Line
- Gloucester signal box upgrade
- Langport bridge
- Frome Railway Bridge
- Autumn drainage work in Somerset
- Anglia route
- Train operating companies
- Living by the railway
- Railway Upgrade Plan
Welcome to our online hub for people who live and work near the railway.
The railway touches most communities in Britain, which means we have millions of neighbours who live close to the tracks and other infrastructure. As well as our enhancement projects, we work 24/7 to keep the railway running and sometimes make repairs at short notice for safety reasons.
We care about how our work on the railway affects those who live and work nearby. If you can’t find what you’re looking for on this page please contact us.
How our work may affect you
Our work is often noisy, late at night and at weekends. We do our best to keep noise and disruption to a minimum and we try to be considerate by giving you as much notice as possible about our general maintenance or planned engineering works.
If works are due to an emergency or involve a moving worksite over a long distance it may not always be possible to inform you in advance of the works. We will however always listen to concerns and will fully investigate complaints or reports. If you want to tell us about something,please let us know.
Our work near you
Use the links below to find out more about the works that we undertake on the railway.
Rail work near me
We are introducing a new digital notification service to inform lineside neighbours and communities of our planned works whether it be general maintenance or projects on a larger scale. The digital service will provide quicker and more informative notifications. This is a step-change in the way we engage with our neighbours and communities. It would be great to have you on board please sign up and register.