What’s in These Terms?
These Terms and Conditions (T&Cs), together with the documents referred to on it, set out the terms of use that apply when you interact with our site www.thetrupgrade.co.uk in any way.
The TRU site may provide information about the following third parties: Arup, Bam Nuttall, Amey, VolkerRail, J. Murphy & Sons, Siemens, Digital Railway, Alstom, Central Rail Systems Alliance, Buckingham Group Contracting, Jacobs and Systra. Please note these T&Cs do not represent the views of the above parties.
By Using Our Site You Accept These Terms
By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
Other Terms
When using our site, you must also comply with the provisions of our Privacy Notice, Cookie Policy, and any other policies which we may refer to from time to time either in these terms of use or elsewhere on our site.
These terms refer to your viewing and use of our site.
Information About Us
www.thetrupgrade.co.uk is a site operated by Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (“we”, “our” or “us”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 02904587 and have our registered office at Waterloo General Office, London SE1 8SW. Our main trading address is 3 Floor, The Quadrant, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes MK9 1EN. Our VAT number is GB 798650956.
To contact us, please email TranspennineEngagement@networkrail.co.uk or telephone our customer service line on 03457 11 41 41. You may also send us a message through our contact form.
Accessing Our Site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of any security procedures for our site, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited takes internet safety seriously, we use encryption, vulnerability assessment and malware scanning to ensure you are safe to use this site.
Intellectual Property Rights
Unless otherwise stated, we are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights (designs, logos, etc) in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may only print off copies, and may only download page(s) from our site for your personal and non-commercial use.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes or as otherwise restricted in these terms and conditions without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
If you believe that you may be the copyright owner of any material on our site and you have not been acknowledged as such by us, then please contact us as soon as possible so that we can take appropriate steps. During our investigation we may remove the relevant material from our site. If, following investigation, we determine that you are the legal copyright owner of the material in question then we will, at our discretion, either enter into discussions with you in order to reach an appropriate solution, or permanently remove the material in question from our site.
Reliance On Information Posted
Content, commentary and other materials posted on our site are for general information only and are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
Our site changes regularly
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
Our Liability
While we make every effort to ensure that the content of our site is accurate, this is not always achievable and the material displayed on our site is therefore provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy and is provided on an “as is” basis. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Whether you are an individual or a business user, we do not exclude our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter.
If you are an individual, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
If you are a business user, we exclude any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by you in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
(i) use of, or inability to use, our site; or
(ii) use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
In particular, we will not be liable for:
(i) loss of income or revenue;
(ii) loss of business;
(iii) loss of profits or contracts;
(iv) loss of anticipated savings;
(v) loss of data;
(vi) loss of goodwill;
(vii) wasted management or office time; and
(viii) for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
Information about you and your visits to our site
We respect user privacy and will process and collect information about you only in accordance with our Privacy Notice.
Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately. You shall indemnify us, and keep us indemnified in respect of any liability suffered or incurred in connection with any breach by you of these terms and conditions or the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Notwithstanding the foregoing you may only use our site only for lawful purposes. In particular, you shall not use our site:
(i) in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation; and/or
(ii) in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
Linking to Our Site
You may link to our site without seeking our prior permission, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
Our site must not be framed on any other site. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. Except where we provide prior written approval, the use of our logo, or the logos of any members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us must not be used for promotional or linking purposes.
If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than as set out above, please address your request to TranspennineEngagement@networkrail.co.uk
We Are Not Responsible for Websites We Link to
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your convenience only. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources
We are not endorsing those sites in any way and we accept no responsibility for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of these sites, or for any faults where you are unable to access the content from the sites.
Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
The courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. If you are an individual residing in Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are an individual residing in Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland. These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
Breach of these Terms
When We consider that a breach of these T&Cs has occurred, we may take such action as We deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with these T&Cs constitutes a material breach upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
- Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
- Issue of a warning to you.
- Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
- Further legal action against you.
- Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.
We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of these T&Cs. The actions We may take are not limited to those described above, and We may take any other action We reasonably deem appropriate.
Trade Marks
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Group name and logo are UK registered trade marks of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited. You are not permitted to use them without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under the ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ clause.
Other trade marks displayed on this website are owned by: The Department for Transport; Northern Railway; and TransPennine Express. You are not permitted to use these trade marks without the express approval of these third parties. Please refer to the owner’s own terms and conditions.
Changes to these terms
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. If you continue to use our site following a change to these terms, you will be treated as having accepted any such revision. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site. These terms were most recently updated on 31/01/2022.
Your Concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact us using the following email address TranspennineEngagement@networkrail.co.uk.
