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Network Rail: Beyond the Hendy Review

Investment & Resilience for the South West

Mark Langman, Route Managing Director – Network Rail Western Route Travel Watch South West, 5 March 2016

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A little about me…

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Our railways

Platform 1 at Paddington Station

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How we compare

RAIL SUBSIDY in Europe

2nd

RAIL INVESTMENT in Europe

1st

LOWEST

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How we compare

RAIL SAFETY in Europe

2nd

RAIL EFFICIENCY in Europe

2nd

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Performance Improvement Plan

• Reintroduced Track Circuit Care Team between Paddington and

Airport Jn

• Reintroduced Points Care Team between Paddington and Reading,

esp Southall, Heathrow Airport, Dolphin Jn & and Slough West Jn

• Completed reliability-focused component upgrades to Southall

East, Southall West and Southcote junctions

• Dedicated S&T rapid response team, located in the Southall /

Hayes area

• Strengthened route focus on daily delivery of the operational and

maintenance plan

• Focus on right-time starts from depots and stations with GWR

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Performance Improvement Plan

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80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 6 7 8 9 10 11 PPM Target PPM Actual

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Network Rail’s Investment

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Enhancements Delivery Plan

2017

Hitachi Bi-modal IEPs enter service

2016

Test Track (Didcot-Reading)

2018

Big timetable change in December

2019

Crossrail (Elizabeth Line) fully open

2020

Electrification build complete

2024

Western Rail Link to Heathrow

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South West

Investment & Resilience

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Cowley Bridge Athelney-Cogload Jn Chipping Sodbury Hele & Bradninch Flax Bourton Patchway Up Tunnel Exeter St Davids Diversionary Route Exeter to Newton Abbot (inc. Dawlish) Whiteball Tunnel

South West Flood Resilience

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• Previously the most-often flooded section of the Route
• Has NOT flooded in 2015-16 storm season.

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Chipping Sodbury

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Whiteball Tunnel (South)

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Whiteball Tunnel (North)

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Whiteball Tunnel

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(Above) Exwick Weir (Below) Pynes Weir

• Plans to improve resilience of the Exe at

Cowley Bridge

• Design complete
• Liaison with landowners ongoing

Cowley Bridge Junction

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Design stage for revised drainage

Hele & Bradninch

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Major revision of drainage system to prevent flooding of main line

Part A Part B

Somerset Levels: Athelney & Cogload

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Working with Somerset County Council and Environment Agency to mitigate future flooding No current plans to divert lines Photo taken in Feb 2014

Part A Part B

Somerset Levels

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Whimple Crewkerne

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We are developing the capacity to

• perate a diversionary

route between London and Exeter for HSTs This would travel via the Wessex Route via Castle Cary and Yeovil For use if/when the Somerset Levels flooded One train per hour

Wessex Diversionary Route

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• Whiteball Tunnel: Complete
• Athelney and Cogload Junction: Complete
• Dawlish Stage 1 works: Complete
• Cornwall resignalling: Underway
• Chipping Sodbury: Underway
• Flax Bourton: Underway
• Patchway Tunnel: Underway
• Cowley Bridge: Detailed design complete and approval

anticipated for March 2016

• Hele & Bradninch: In design stage

Summary Status

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Exeter to Newton Abbot

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• Dawlish Sea Wall works and repair to cliffside – complete
• Sea wall replaced and track reinstated
• C.100,000 tonnes of material removed
• Sea wall walk raised to high level to provide additional

protection

Exeter to Newton Abbot

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• 20 miles of Western Route
• 5 Line of Route Sections
• Evaluation of existing asset condition
• Optioneering process
• 100 year resilience options including climate

change

• Environmental Considerations

Ex2NA: Long Term

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• Geotechnical study took place 2015 to determine long-term

resilience measures necessary for the line

• Reporting to DfT soon following optioneering

Ex2NA: Long Term

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Next steps: Ground Investigation Works complete Summer ’16 Scoping & Option Selection Phase completed by Spring 2016 Final Option Selection Report to be issued May 2016 Currently no further funding for remainder of CP5 (2 years)

• ther than reactive response to repair failures

Current funding situation means that Project will be paused from Autumn 2016 until commencement of CP6 (2019) assuming that DfT approves

Ex2NA: Long Term

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• Longer ‘alternative route’ study completed in June 2014 and

delivered to DfT – now with Peninsula Rail Task Force

Exeter to Plymouth: Alternative Route Study

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• GWR funded, through the Department for Transport, new

study into delivering infrastructure interventions to support the AT300 reduced journey times by 2018.

Line Speed Improvements to SW

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For the introduction of cascaded Diesel Multiple Units

Preparation Works

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£45m now for GRIP 3-5 Development and advanced works awaiting signoff from DfT £15m funding from Cornwall CC being sourced to deliver Stage 1, comprising additional signalling between Menheniot and Cambourne to enable a 30-min frequency between Plymouth and Penzance

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Cornwall Resignalling

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There has never been a better time to be involved with our nation’s railways

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