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 / / 1
A little about me… / 2
Our railways Platform 1 at Paddington Station / 3
How we compare RAIL INVESTMENT in Europe 1 st RAIL SUBSIDY in Europe 2 nd LOWEST / 4
How we compare RAIL SAFETY in Europe 2 nd RAIL EFFICIENCY in Europe 2 nd / 5
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 / 6
Performance Improvement Plan 94 92 90 88 PPM Target PPM Actual 86 84 82 80 6 7 8 9 10 11 / 7
Network Rail’s Investment / 8
Enhancements Delivery Plan 2016 Test Track (Didcot-Reading) 2017 Hitachi Bi-modal IEPs enter service 2018 Big timetable change in December 2019 Crossrail (Elizabeth Line) fully open 2020 Electrification build complete 2024 Western Rail Link to Heathrow / 9
South West Investment & Resilience / / 10
South West Flood Resilience Patchway Up Tunnel Flax Bourton Whiteball Tunnel Cowley Bridge Chipping Sodbury Athelney-Cogload Jn Exeter St Davids Diversionary Route Exeter to Newton Abbot (inc. Dawlish) Hele & Bradninch / 11
Chipping Sodbury • Previously the most-often flooded section of the Route • Has NOT flooded in 2015-16 storm season. / 12
Whiteball Tunnel (South) / 13
Whiteball Tunnel (North) / 14
Whiteball Tunnel / 15
Cowley Bridge Junction • Plans to improve resilience of the Exe at Cowley Bridge • Design complete • Liaison with landowners ongoing ( Above) Exwick Weir (Below) Pynes Weir / 16
Hele & Bradninch Design stage for revised drainage / 17
Somerset Levels: Athelney & Cogload Major revision of drainage system to prevent flooding of main line Part A Part B / 18
Somerset Levels Working with Somerset County Council and Environment Agency to mitigate future flooding No current plans to Part A divert lines Photo taken in Feb 2014 Part B / 19
Wessex Diversionary Route We are developing the capacity to operate 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 Whimple Crewkerne One train per hour / 20
Summary Status 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 • / 21
Exeter to Newton Abbot / 22
Exeter to Newton Abbot 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 / 23
Ex2NA: Long Term • 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 Flood Resilience Programme Update 26 / 24 January 2015
Ex2NA: Long Term Geotechnical study took place 2015 to determine long-term • resilience measures necessary for the line Reporting to DfT soon following optioneering • / 25
Ex2NA: Long Term 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) other 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 / 26
Exeter to Plymouth: Alternative Route Study Longer ‘alternative route’ study completed in June 2014 and • delivered to DfT – now with Peninsula Rail Task Force / 27
Line Speed Improvements to SW GWR funded, through the Department for Transport, new • study into delivering infrastructure interventions to support the AT300 reduced journey times by 2018. / 28
Preparation Works For the introduction of cascaded Diesel Multiple Units / 29
Cornwall Resignalling £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 / 30
“ There has never been a better “ time to be involved with our nation’s railways Questions / 31
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