We’re working hard to improve the way we work – and value for taxpayers. Here are seven ways we’ve made the railway more efficient …

We will deliver £4bn of efficiencies by pursuing better value and doing more for less by 2024. We have challenged ourselves to reduce our costs by 15% when building major projects.

1. Siding with freight

A £840,000 regeneration project resulted in a £6.7m investment from a new freight partner.

We constructed new sidings, lay-bys for trains, at Lowestoft that repurposed 3.4 acres of land and attracted a new rail freight partner, Land Recovery.

The new sidings were designed as a fit for purpose freight facility adjacent to Lowestoft Port, Suffolk. Our new facility will allow longer Colas Rail freight trains to operate and also make it easier to carry out maintenance.

This will reduce disruption, save taxpayers £75,000 a year and reduce carbon emissions by removing 9,000 lorries from the roads.

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