What does Network Rail need to deliver by April 2019?
Network Rail will spend an estimated 38bn to deliver plans for safety,
performance and value on Britains railways, between 2014 and 2019
The independent rail regulator is closely monitoring the companys progress.
By 2019, the company must deliver:
38bn spend
Performance
Punctuality / cancellations
Nine out of 10 trains must
run on time for all regional,
London and South East, and
within Scotland routes.
By 2019, fewer than three
in 100 trains on the Virgin
train routes and around four
in 100 trains on the East
Coast should be hit by severe
lateness or cancellations.
2015
2016
100
100
2017
Finance and efficiency
Creating a cost-effective railway
Network Rail achieved efficiencies of 15.5%
in running the railway from 2009 to 2014.
ORR has set it a new stretching challenge to
deliver a further 20% in efficiencies by 2019.
Network Rail will receive
morethan 21bn over
thenextfive years to
fund the day-to-day
runningofthe rail network.
ORR will require the
company to bring down
the costof running the
network byaround22%.
21bn
22%
2018
Safety
Plans to improve safetyat level crossings
109m to close around 500 level
crossings and improvesafety at
hundreds more.
2019
Meeting milestones for major
improvement works
250m to help improve safety
oftrack workers, to be invested
innew equipment and safer
workingpractices.
Stations Improving
the facilities at stations,
such asaccess
arrangement,
toilets, ambiance.
ORR has also approved an extra
571m to upgradestructures such
as bridgesand tunnels.
Network Rails safety roleis enshrined in
law as it works towards ensuring zero
passenger orworkforce fatalities
Journey Time
Improvements
Improvements
enablingdecreases
injourney times.
Network (assets) management
Weve asked Network Rail to:
Make the network more resilient
to extreme weather including hot
temperatures, floods, ice and snow.
Improve day-to-day running
of therailways moving from
a findandfix to a predict
andpreventway of working.
Deliver planned volumes of network
renewals, including track and other
equipment such as signalling.
Network
enhancements
More specifically, we will be:
Looking even more closely at Network
Rails performance, particularly how
they are managing, maintaining
andrenewing the network.
Getting information from
Network Rail to decide whether
it is performing as well as it can.
Intervening at an early stage,
sothatemerging problems
dontaffectpassengers.
Capacity Schemes
allowing more or
longer trains to run
(such as new or
longerplatforms).
Electrification
Developing the
networkto enable
electric trains to run.
Power Supply To
meet the power supply
demandsof increased
capacity/services and
onthe network.
