Check before you travel (CBYT) Christmas 2024 – Phase 2

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Dates

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

Locations

National

Audience

All passengers:

Total audience: bank holiday leisure and business travellers.

Target audience: young males, aged 16-34 years old, employed, travelling with others and for leisure purposes (who are not planning train journeys, checking before they travel, or booking tickets in advance).

Media channels

Paid:
- Radio
- Digital programmatic
- Social media
- Billboards
- Press

Owned:
- Digital station screens
- Printed poster sites
- Social media posts
- Website articles

Earned:
- Press releases

Internal
- Digital screens in offices/depots

Key contacts

Jessica.Lawrence4@networkrail.co.uk

Marketing@networkrail.co.uk

*Phase 2 (Monday 21 October until Thursday 2 January) *

The aim of this campaign is to raise awareness of planned rail engineering work over the Christmas and New Year bank holiday period. We are encouraging leisure and business passengers to plan ahead and check if their train journey is affected before they travel.

After extensive passenger and stakeholder research in May 2024, we have developed a new creative design which is an evolution of the previous stick person creative design. This is the second time we’ve used this new creative design.

Phase 2 of our Christmas campaign will be promoted across all channels including paid media (digital, social, billboards, radio, press). Our messaging in this phase is stronger than the previous phase, where we manage passenger expectations by calling out the significant changes to services and longer journey times. Furthermore, we are supporting our regional and TOC colleagues by uplifting paid media in affected geographical areas (towns/cities).

These campaigns are no longer live or being promoted to public and passengers. However, if you would like to use these resources please ask permission from Network Rail’s marketing team: marketing@networkrail.co.uk

There are 7 sets of creatives and messages which might be surfaced during different dates:

‘National resources’ messaging:

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

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‘Southern (Kent & Sussex) resources’ messaging:

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

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‘Southern (Wessex) resources’ messaging:

21 October 2024 - 3 January 2025

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‘Scotland resources’ messaging:

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

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‘North West & Central (NW&C) resources’ messaging:

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

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‘Eastern resources’ messaging:

21 October 2024 - 5 January 2025

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‘Wales and Western resources’ messaging:

4 November 2024 - 3 January 2025

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Materials for ‘National resources’ campaign:

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

Digital resources

Total: 11.17 MB

Print resources

Total: 13.64 MB

Social resources

Total: 15.92 MB

Radio advert

Total: 16.38 MB

Materials for ‘Southern (Kent & Sussex) resources’ campaign:

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

London Bridge resources

Total: 22.67 MB

London Victoria resources

Total: 28.98 MB

Charing Cross resources

Total: 35.22 MB

GTR resources

Total: 41.46 MB

Blackfriars resources

Total: 47.72 MB

Materials for ‘Southern (Wessex) resources’ campaign:

21 October 2024 - 3 January 2025

Digital resources

Total: 51.87 MB

Print resources

Total: 55.06 MB

Social resources

Total: 55.99 MB

Radio adverts

Total: 56.91 MB

Materials for ‘Scotland resources’ campaign:

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

Materials for ‘North West & Central (NW&C) resources’ campaign:

21 October 2024 - 2 January 2025

Digital resources

Total: 68.94 MB

Print resources

Total: 72.22 MB

Social resources

Total: 73.80 MB

Radio advert

Total: 74.25 MB

Materials for ‘Eastern resources’ campaign:

21 October 2024 - 5 January 2025

Liverpool Street station

Total: 78.51 MB

Cambridge

Total: 83.10 MB

East Midlands

Total: 95.00 MB

Materials for ‘Wales and Western resources’ campaign:

4 November 2024 - 3 January 2025

Autumn (week 34 work) - English

Total: 101.39 MB

Autumn (week 34 work) - Welsh

Total: 107.95 MB

Christmas work - English

Total: 113.81 MB

Christmas work - Welsh

Total: 119.10 MB