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The Rail Central Rail Freight Interchange and Highway Order 201[X] The Rail Central Rail Freight Interchange and Highway Order 201[x] Regulation 5(2)(q) Title of Document Rail Operations Report Date 6th March 2018 Prepared by/Author Intermodality The Rail Central Rail Freight Interchange and Highway Order 201[x] Regulation 5(2)(q) Rail Operations Report Contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Scope...................................................................................................................................................... 3 2 Rail freight interchanges .................................................................................................................................. 6 2.1 Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 6 2.2 The development of Strategic Rail Freight Interchanges ....................................................................... 7 2.3 Occupiers at SRFI ................................................................................................................................ 14 2.4 Operations at SRFI ............................................................................................................................... 15 3 Rail Central: main line access ........................................................................................................................ 24 3.1 Main line infrastructure and services .................................................................................................... 24 3.2 Loading gauge capability ...................................................................................................................... 26 3.3 Network capacity .................................................................................................................................. 27 4 Rail Central: on-site rail works ....................................................................................................................... 32 4.1 Physical connection to railway ............................................................................................................. 32 4.2 On-site track layout ............................................................................................................................... 35 4.3 Ancillary facilities .................................................................................................................................. 36 4.4 Phasing of specific elements ................................................................................................................ 37 5 Rail Central: rail freight traffic movements ..................................................................................................... 38 5.1 Overview ............................................................................................................................................... 38 6 Co-location with DIRFT & Northampton Gateway ......................................................................................... 40 7 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................................... 42 Appendices ........................................................................................................................................................... 44 A. Strategic Freight Network showing Rail Central location ..................................................................... 45 B. Regional rail network showing Rail Central location ............................................................................ 46 C. Diagram of loading gauge profiles ........................................................................................................ 47 Page 2 The Rail Central Rail Freight Interchange and Highway Order 201[x] Regulation 5(2)(q) Rail Operations Report 1 Introduction 1.1 Scope 1.1.1 This report has been prepared by Intermodality on behalf of Ashfield Land Management Limited and Gazeley GLP Northampton s.à.r.l., regarding the Development Consent Order (DCO) application for a Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) known as Rail Central. 1.1.2 The need for the development of SRFI1 combines shared public policy and industry objectives, namely: Satisfying continued and growing demand for provision of warehousing floorspace within GB, in particular for larger warehouse units capable of providing national and regional distribution facilities, in strategic locations relative to the strategic transport network; Satisfying continued and growing demand for use of rail transport within international and national supply chains, to provide an alternative and more efficient means of transport to road haulage, in particular for moving large volumes of freight. 1.1.3 These objectives reflect a range of key drivers, summarised as follows: Demand for goods, driven by an expanding population and consumer base seeking access to a greater range of products – more warehousing space is required to process these goods; Use of ecommerce services in retail – more warehousing space is being sought by retailers offering internet shopping to serve their growing customer base, in addition to the warehousing needs of more traditional established “bricks and mortar” retailers; Delivery pressures, responding to the increasing expectations from the ecommerce-driven society for next-day or same-day fulfilment – disproportionately more warehousing space is then required to ensure sufficient stocks are held across the supply chain at both NDC and RDC levels; Pressure on retailers and logistics operators to achieve even greater efficiency from the supply chain to counter increased “last-mile” delivery costs to customers, including greater use of larger “big box” warehouses and rail to obtain economies of scale; A shrinking pool of HGV drivers, with analysis of the Government’s Labour Force Survey indicating that the national driver shortage has risen to 52,000 in the year to Q2 2017, a dramatic increase of 49%. A further concern relates to the average age of a HGV driver increasing from 47.9 to 48.3 over the same period, a long-term trend of an ageing driver population;2 Similarly, pressure on retailers and logistics operators to reduce the environmental impact of their supply chains, partly through replacing ageing warehousing stock with more modern and efficient warehousing, and partly through greater use of warehousing with access to rail and/or other alternative modes of transport to road haulage. 1 The need case is addressed in the Rail Central Market Report 2 Freight & Logistics, Freight Transport Association, October 2017, page 5 Page 3 The Rail Central Rail Freight Interchange and Highway Order 201[x] Regulation 5(2)(q) Rail Operations Report 1.1.4 Yet this need could not be addressed simply to using the existing small number of SRFI / RFI, as these would be unable by themselves to fulfil the scale of the opportunity. A network of existing and new sites is required, as noted in the National Policy Statement on National Networks (NPSNN).3 1.1.5 The scale of need for SRFI expansion is evident in comparison with total distribution floorspace: Over the last 14 years, take up of new-build floorspace in the larger units over 9,000 sq m has been in the order of 1 million sq m per annum; 4,5 Over the last twenty years, around 2.2 million sq m of new-build floorspace has been supplied on SRFI and RFI, an average of 0.13 million sq m per annum (ie just 14% of the above total); 6 Network Rail’s long-range freight forecasts to 2043 are derived from an assumed increase in total rail-served warehousing from the current level to some 5.9 million sq m by 2023, 9.6 million sq m by 2033 and 13.3 million sq m by 2043. This suggests a development rate of around 0.4 million sq m per annum – considerably more than achieved over the last 20 years.7 1.1.6 Industry has reiterated the need for expansion of interchange capacity, a major logistics operator noting; Wincanton actively seeks to switch domestic volume to rail wherever it proves operationally and commercially viable to do so and the continued development of SRFIs is crucial in delivering this. A network of open access terminals providing for minimal stem mileage from distribution centre to SRFI and access to genuine shared user services will lead to the introduction of new rail freight services and encourage modal shift from road to rail.8 1.1.7 A joint Freight Transport Association (FTA) / DfT report contained statements from retailers Morrisons, Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s all citing the need for more rail facilities.9 More recently, the FTA has indicated a need for a 400% increase in the capacity of strategic rail freight interchanges and rail connected warehousing, as crucial to expanding access to the rail freight network and achieving Network Rail’s Freight Market Study forecasts.10 1.1.8 This report focuses on the rail-related aspects of the proposed development. The purpose of the report is to describe the following aspects: The role of Rail Freight Interchanges (RFI) and the particular role played by SRFI: Main line railway access from the site; Proposed on-site railway infrastructure and associated interchange facilities; Method of working for trains to, from and on site; The capability of site to handle rail freight services
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