CONTENTS Introduction 5 1. Government 6 Scotland and Wales 6 Regulation 7 Passenger Transport Executives 7 2. Main Line Railway Infrastructure 9 Network Rail 9 Organisation 9 Route Utilisation Strategies (RUSs) 10 Control Period 4 (2009-14) (CP4) 10 Enhancement projects 12 Electrification 14 Other projects 15 Network Rail Procurement 16 Asset maintenance contracts 17 Rail supply contracts 17 Five-year track renewals contracts 17 Civils renewals contracts 18 Telecommunications renewals contracts 18 Signalling renewals contracts 18 High-speed Lines 19 High Speed 1 (Channel Tunnel Rail Link) 19 High Speed 2 20 3. Main Line Train Operating Companies 22 The passenger franchise structure 22 Background 22 Franchised passenger operators: status as at November 2010 23 Open access passenger operators 26 Franchise-holding groups/train operating parent companies 28 Rail freight operators 30 4. Rolling Stock Procurement 32 Passenger vehicles 32 Freight vehicles 35
5. Rolling Stock Leasing Companies 36 6. Railways in Northern Ireland 38 Government 38 NI Railways 38 Organisation 38 Developments 39 7. Transport for London (TfL) 40 Organisation 40 London Underground 41 Organisation 41 LUL Nominee BCV Ltd/LUL Nominee SSL Ltd (Metronet Rail) 42 Tube Lines 44 Expenditure plans (LUL) 45 London Overground 45 Organisation 45 East London Line (ELL) Extension 46 Expenditure plans (London Overground) 47 Docklands Light Railway 47 Organisation 47 Expenditure plans (DLR) 48 Crossrail 49 8. Light Rail and Light Metros 51 Blackpool 51 Edinburgh Tram 51 Glasgow Subway 52 London: Cross River Tram 52 London Tramlink 52 Manchester Metrolink 53 Midland Metro (Birmingham/Wolverhampton) 54 Nottingham Express Transit (NET) 54 Sheffield: Stagecoach Supertram 54 Tyne & Wear Metro 55 Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd 2010 2
9. The Railway Supply Industry 56 Rolling stock, rolling stock components and subsystems 56 Vehicle maintenance equipment and services/refurbishment 57 Revenue collection, access control, passenger information systems 58 and station equipment Track products 58 Track maintenance and renewals equipment and products 59 Track maintenance and renewals services 60 Signalling and communications systems 61 Traction power supply and electrification systems 61 Civil engineering and construction/infrastructure maintenance 62 Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd 2010 3
Electrification England and Wales In July 2009 the DfT announced its intention to initiate electrification of two routes: The Great Western Main Line from London to Swansea, and including the sections from Reading to Newbury and Didcot to Oxford. This was expected to be completed in eight years at an approximate cost of 1 billion, with some sections commissioned earlier. In the Thames Valley this could enable Crossrail services to continue west beyond Maidenhead to Reading. Liverpool-Manchester via Newton le Willows. This was expected to be completed in four years at an approximate cost of 100 million. This would enable electric services to be operated between Manchester and its airport to Glasgow and Edinburgh. The announcement followed the findings of a cross-industry working group that included the DfT, Network Rail, train operators and the railway supply industry to develop options for a potentially extensive programme of main line electrification. This resulted in Network Rail s Route Utilisation Strategy: Electrification. Among factors influencing this were uncertainties over future oil prices and supply and the forthcoming need to replace fleets of diesel-powered trains at the end of their working lives. Following the Comprehensive Spending Review by the Coalition Government that took office in May 2010, the first elements of a revised electrification programme were announced in November 2010. These provided for the following routes to be electrified: Great Western Main Line beyond the present limit of electrification at Hayes to Didcot/Oxford and Newbury by 2016 at a cost of 600 million. Liverpool-Manchester via Newton le Willows; Huyton-Wigan; Preston-Blackpool; and Manchester-Preston. These routes are to be electrified between 2013 and 2016 at a cost of 300 million. At the time these projects were announced, a decision on electrifying Great Western Main Line routes beyond Didcot to Bristol and South Wales was deferred until early 2011. This element of the programme is closely linked to the Intercity Express rolling stock programme and also required further work with the Welsh Assembly Government. Scotland Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP) In Scotland, the Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR), published by Transport Scotland in 2008 (http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/projects/strategic-transport-projects-review), supported the phased electrification of key routes in the country, initially covering: Edinburgh-Glasgow via Falkirk High and Cumbernauld-Dunblane/Alloa Remaining Central Belt routes Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd 2010 4
Subsequent possible phases, extending beyond the period covered by the STPR, cover: Edinburgh-Perth/-Dundee, including the Fife Circle Dunblane-Aberdeen Perth-Inverness In 2010 first contracts were awarded for the 1 billion Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP). This will see some 350 single-track km of lines in Scotland s Central Belt electrified by 2016. The lines covered are those identified in the STPR as the first phase to be treated. The work is being carried out by Network Rail on behalf of Transport Scotland. Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd 2010 5