Anglia Route
Our Region
Our Eastern region is one of the busiest in our network, spanning much of the East of England, and carrying over one billion passengers each year. The region is home to four of Network Rail’s routes, the Anglia, East Coast, East Midlands, and North & East routes.
Our Eastern region plays an essential role for many commuters getting to and from some of the country’s busiest cities, including London, Newcastle, Leeds, and Sheffield. As well as making sure our passengers can travel to their destinations safely, we play an important part in moving freight, with over a million tonnes travelling through our region each week.
Our Route
We are responsible for running and maintaining the railway in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and parts of Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, and Greater London. With over 4,000 trains using our railway each day, we are one of the busiest routes in the country.
We exist to make sure that people and goods get where they need to be safely and on time, and to support economic growth and productivity in an environmentally sustainable way. With our route serving Stansted and Southend airports, as well as three major UK ports at Felixstowe, Thames Haven, and Tilbury, our railway is used by a diverse range of passenger and rolling stock.
Our Route in Numbers
Did you know?
The Anglia route has 778 level crossings across our railway, more than any other route!
Key Station
We own and operate London Liverpool Street, the third busiest station in the UK. Around 70 million passenger journeys start or end in this station each year!
Our Projects
Keeping communities safe
We care about making sure our communities understand how to stay safe on and around the railway. In the Anglia route, we run a range of initiatives to encourage people to behave safely around the railway, from creating informative campaigns, to running events at our 778 level crossings.
Our Community Safety Manager delivers rail safety presentations and workshops to schools, community groups and Crucial Crew/Junior Citizens schemes, to help children understand the dangers that the railway can pose.
Improving Accessibility at Grays Station
As part of the Government’s ‘Access for All’ scheme, Grays station in Essex will become fully accessible with the addition of two new lifts, allowing station users to access both platforms via the existing subway under the tracks. These upgrades are expected to take 12 months, and will make changing platforms step-free much more convenient for passengers.
Making our stations more accessible means it’s easier for people to visit friends, get to the shops or go to work, and reduces car journeys, congestion, and carbon emissions
Our Improvements
We’re using new technology and innovative planning to optimise access to the railway. Between 2019 and 2024, we’re investing £2.2bn in running, renewing, and maintaining railway infrastructure across our route – a 21% increase from the previous five years, contributing significantly to today’s on-time performance and future reliability.
Our commitment to reducing disruptions and improving passenger experience includes a comprehensive programme to renew tracks, overhead lines, signals, bridges, tunnels, embankments, and level crossings. Thanks to these improvement works, infrastructure faults causing disruptions are now at their lowest in a decade. As well as making improvements to our infrastructure, we’re also supporting train operators using our line in upgrading their trains.