Nearly 1,000 Network Rail staff earned £100,000 or more last year (Image: Getty Images)
The taxpayer-funded company - dubbed "Notwork Rail" by critics - was heavily involved in last year's timetable meltdown which caused misery across the country. The proportion of cancelled or severely delayed trains is also at the highest level since 2001. And Network Rail faces fines running into millions of pounds from the regulator if it fails to improve performance. Yet rail passengers faced a 3.1 percent increase in fares in January.
Details of the pay packages came just days after MPs on the Public Accounts Committee warned passengers they face "another difficult year" after 2018's "year from hell".
Figures obtained by a newspaper show that 963 Network Rail employees earned more than £100,000 in 2017-18, including 131 on more than £150,000.
The pay packages include wages, bonuses, overtime and pension contributions.
Leading the gravy train is chief executive Andrew Haines on £588,000 while
