Rail Stations and Property 2024 will explore the opportunities available across:

• Making rail stations a key part of vibrant integrated transport and community hubs
• Changing use of the railway: shifting peaks, maximising capacity for commuting and leisure trips
• Long-term demographic and geographical changes: a decreasing and ageing population
• Short-term geographical changes: return to suburban and rural living / working
• Drivers of modal shift /integrated networks / e-mobility
• Changing the culture of the railways
• Thinking like customers – putting passengers first
• Making rail and stations easier to use
• Simplification: doing things quicker, driving down costs and being more accountable
• Harnessing the best of the private sector
• Playing a critical role in the national shift to net zero
• Growing the network and getting more people travelling and using stations