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30-Year Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 West Midlands Rail Executive - Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 | Consultation Draft October 2018 A New Era for West Midlands Rail Travel West Midlands Rail Executive A 30-year Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 Consultation Draft October 2018 West Midlands Rail Executive - Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 | Consultation Draft October 2018 Responding to our Consultation Document We would like to hear the views of a wide range of organisations, businesses and individuals on our draft Rail Investment Strategy. We have engaged with a number of our partner organisations as we have developed this Strategy, and would now appreciate feedback from all interested parties both on the Strategy as a whole, but also specifically on the questions below: 1. Has the Strategy identified the key drivers for change on the rail network and reflected the main growth areas in our service plans? 2. Is the 6-4-2 trains per hour frequency aspiration an appropriate approach for improving services across the network? 3. Does the Strategy respond appropriately to the opportunity that HS2 will bring to the West Midlands region? 4. Does the Strategy appropriately identify the economic benefits to the region that rail can deliver? 5. Does the Strategy effectively identify the long-term development priorities and choices for the network in order to support both passenger and freight services? We would welcome comments on the individual corridor priorities as shown in the appendix and also any other aspects of the draft Strategy that respondees wish to highlight. Wherever possible, we would like your responses to include specific evidence or examples. Please provide your responses to these questions either through our website http://wmre.org.uk/strategy/wmris or by email to [email protected] Responses are required by 12:00 hours on Monday 19th November 2018. West Midlands Rail Executive - Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 | Consultation Draft October 2018 Contents Foreword 1 West Midlands Rail Map 2 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Glossary 6 3. Rail for a Dynamic Region 7 3.1 West Midlands Rail Executive Who We Are 8 3.2 Rail – supporting a vibrant, growing region 8 3.3 An evidenced strategy for investment in the West Midlands Rail Network 2018-2047 9 4. How we have developed our Strategy 10 4.1 How we have developed our strategy 11 4.2 Inputs to our strategy 11 4.3 The timeline for our strategy 12 5. Our Key Investment Priorities 13 6. Delivering the Strategy 23 Appendix – Our Corridor Priorities 25 West Midlands Rail Executive - Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 | Consultation Draft October 2018 Foreword by Councillor Roger Lawrence Rail is vital to the West Midlands. West Midlands Rail Executive is pleased to outline our draft strategy for delivering better rail services across the whole region over the next 30 years. The strategy will support the exciting regeneration and growth plans that exist across all our partner authorities, recognising the role rail can play in connecting people, communities and businesses together. In 2018 West Midlands rail services are more frequent, carrying more passengers and taking more journeys ’off the road than ever before. Trains and stations are busier and rail capacity used intensively. We will need to continuously evolve the network to meet the challenges of growth. Many substantial committed service, train and station improvements will be delivered by the West Midlands rail franchise between now and 2025. In this strategy we set out our ambitions and priorities for developing services in the medium and long-term towards 2047, supported by clear economic evidence. We wish to build on the opportunities generated by High Speed 2 and Midlands Connect’s ‘Midlands Rail Hub’, and strike a balance between expanding passenger services and accommodating rail-freight growth. We would welcome views from our partners and stakeholders on whether the key elements and direction of this draft 30-year strategy are right, and your perspectives on priorities and choices where these will need to be made amongst the multiple aspirations that exist across our region. Whilst this strategy focuses on the train services and physical network required to support the needs of the region, we know that passengers want to see a wide range of improvements in reliability, fares, ticketing, customer care and information. West Midlands Rail Executive is separately developing our approach to these expectations and will be engaging with stakeholders in the future as part of our work on our Single Network Vision. Roger Lawrence Chair - West Midlands Rail Executive 1 Crewe Stoke-on-Trent Staord Burton-on-Trent Rugeley TV Rugeley Town Penkridge Cannock Lich eld TV West Midlands Rail Executive - Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 | Consultation Draft October 2018 Telford Walsall Central Sutton Tamworth Shrewsbury Darlaston Cold eld West Midlands Wolverhampton Tame Bridge Willenhall Parkway Dudley Port Perry Barr Nuneaton Leicester Rail Map Sandwell & Dudley Snow Hill Smethwick Curzon Street GB New St Stechford Moor St Rowley University Regis Birmingham Birmingham Interchange Cradley International Coventry Hazelwell Moseley Heath Stourbridge Town Tile Stourbridge Jn Rugby Kings Heath Solihull Hill Northampton Kings Norton Dorridge Whitlocks End Kenilworth Crewe Kidderminster Longbridge Warwick Warwick Leamington Bromsgrove Parkway Spa Droitwich Spa Stoke-on-Trent Worcester Foregate St Henley-in-Arden Worcester Worcestershire Shrub Hill Parkway Redditch Great Malvern Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway Hereford Stratford-upon-Avon Staord Burton-on-Trent Rugeley TV Rugeley Town Penkridge Cannock Lich eld TV Local Passenger Route Telford Route without local passenger service Walsall Central Sutton Tamworth HS2 Shrewsbury Darlaston Cold eld Wolverhampton Tame Bridge Willenhall Parkway Disused former freight route Former freight route being used for Metro Dudley Port Perry Barr Nuneaton Leicester Sandwell & Dudley Snow Hill People mover link Smethwick Curzon Street GB Station New St Stechford Moor St New station under active development and Rowley University Regis in funding programme Birmingham Birmingham Interchange Cradley International Coventry Hazelwell Moseley Principal Freight terminal Heath Stourbridge Town Tile Stourbridge Jn Rugby Kings Heath Solihull Hill Northampton Kings Norton Dorridge Whitlocks End Kenilworth Kidderminster Longbridge Warwick Warwick Leamington Bromsgrove Parkway Spa Droitwich Spa Worcester Foregate St Henley-in-Arden Worcester Worcestershire Shrub Hill Parkway Redditch Great Malvern Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway Hereford Stratford-upon-Avon Figure 1 - West Midlands Rail Map 2 Local Passenger Route Route without local passenger service HS2 Disused former freight route Former freight route being used for Metro People mover link Station New station under active development and in funding programme Principal Freight terminal West Midlands Rail Executive - Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 | Consultation Draft October 2018 1. Executive Summary 3 Z WestWest Midlands Midlands Rail Executive - Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 | Consultation Draft October 2018 Rail Investment Strategy 2018-2047 1. Executive Summary - October 2018 West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE) is a partnership of 16 local authorities leading a 1 2 Implement 3 Deliver WMR Support movement for change and driving a revolution in rail services for West Midlanders. 6-4-2 tph Franchise Midlands frequency With a population of 6.47 million, an economy worth £128 billion each year, 3.2 million Quick Wins Rail Hub 2032 jobs and a key UK international airport, the West Midlands is thriving, vital to Britain’s 2018 - 2047 prosperity, and growing. By 2032 there will be 900,000 more people and 450,000 new jobs. Further major growth is anticipated in the 2030s and 2040s. 4 Develop 5 6 7 Delivery of our ambitions for faster, more frequent, better-connecting and higher Consider Integrate capacity rail services will be essential to accommodate and build upon this scale of WMRE High Growth Support radical WMCA growth. By 2032 transformed West Midlands rail services will themselves add £325m HS2 change each year to the economy, rising to £540m by 2047, and a further 6,600 new jobs. Corridors freight up to 2032 2033 - 2047 strategy Figure 2 - Seven Principal Components Our rail services make a major contribution today • ONE - West Midlands rail franchise and other • FOUR - Our high growth rail corridors: • SEVEN – Supporting rail-freight to the economy, businesses and communities franchises ‘quick wins’: 2018 to 2026 2018 to 2032 development and growth of the West Midlands with, for example, rail Delivery of the ambitions and commitments Developing rail services and connectivity in high- Supporting Transport for West Midlands becoming the leading means of peak travel into of the West Midlands rail franchise, which growth corridors seeing the greatest economic (TfWM) and other WMRE-partner freight Birmingham in 2017. However the region’s rail we co-manage with the Department for and population growth to 2032, including the strategies, maximising shared benefits for network has significant existing challenges, Transport. These include enhanced cross- Wolverhampton-Coventry, Cannock-Walsall- passenger and freight services of capacity is operating close to capacity, and needs Birmingham connectivity, better Sunday Birmingham, Tamworth-Nuneaton-Birmingham, released by High Speed 2. We will seek to transformative investment to be fit for current and and evening services, new Camp
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