Warwick Business School Forum
Iain Coucher3 November 2008
The future challenges
Efficiency
Earlier
Later
Weekends
Bank Holidays
OPENFOR BUSINESS
Availability
90%
92.6%92%91%
Performance
Investment
The Performance Challenge
90.5%89.9%
88.1%
86.4%
83.6%
81.2%
79.2%78.0%
79.1%
87.8%87.9%
89.7%89.8%
86.6%86.6%87.4%
86.7%
1992-3 1993-4 1994-5 1995-6 1996-7 1997-8 1998-9 1999-2000
2000-1 2001-2 2002-3 2003-4 2004-5 2005-6 2006-7 2007-8 2008-9(P6)
BR Railtrack Railtrack / Network Rail
Network Rail Current Year
Great Britain rail punctuality... better than BR …better than Railtrack
Great Britain rail punctuality
Period 6 (92.4% )Pre-Hatfield MAA
(86.1% )
Network Rail Takes Over (78.6% )
Current MAA (90.5% )
55%
60%
65%
70%
75%
80%
85%
90%
95%
00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09Financial Year
% o
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PM
Period Result MAA
Numbers of trains…
• At privatisation… 14,000 trains per day…• 2002… 17,000 trains per day…• 2008… 24,000 trains per day…
… and they keep going up!
• Daily passenger services
Today Dec 2008Weekday 19,991 20,898Saturday 18,109 19,286Sunday 9,738 10,694
The Availability Challenge
There are only 24 hours in a day!
…and only 365 days a year!
And trains run all day and all night…
• The last train from London KX to Peterborough– Departs 01:36 am– Arrives 03:21 am
• The first train from Peterborough to KX– Departs 03:23 am…
High Speed Track Renewal Systems - Points
High Speed Track Renewal Systems – Ballast
High Speed Bridge Replacment
New ways of doing things
New Materials…
St Austell Footbridge
Standen Hey AccommodationBridge
LauderAquaduct
Modular Stations…
In fact… modular everything!
East Midlands Parkway… 2 October 2008
East Midlands Parkway… 2 October 2008
Open December 2008
The Investment Challenge
The good news!
• Over the next fiveyears we will invest:– £10,800,000,000 renewing
the railway…– £7,612,000,000 enhancing
the railway…– £5,000,000,000 maintaining
the railway…
Growing investment
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3000
4000
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6000
2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14Renewals Enhancements
2003 - 2008 2009 - 2014
Thameslink Programme - £5,500,000,000
Blackfriars Station…
Kings Cross Station…
Birmingham New Street…
Reading Station…
Doing our bit for the Olympics…
Stratford Station
Electrification…
West Coast… Delivery since the overruns
• 31 Mar - ORR states Network Rail plan is deliverable
• Easter Completed to time
• May Day Bank HolidayCompleted to time
• Spring Bank HolidayCompleted to time
• August Bank Holiday Completed to time
November Crewe-Weaver line speeds
• November Rugby Commissioning
• December Milton Keynes
Insert Photo of in
complete Rugby
West Coast… Delivery yet to go…
The Efficiency Challenge
Billions and billions of pounds saved…
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14
Costs down nearly 50% in ten years!
The Future Challenge?
• Passenger numbers up - 40% over last 10 years to 1.3bn journeys a year
• By 2025 many lines will be full up• Strategic review of the case for
building new rail lines across the network
• Five strategic routes being examined,north and west of London:– Chiltern, East Coast, West Coast,
Great Western and Midland mainlines
Planning for new railways
Questions?
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