Delivering East West Rail Patrick O'sullivan – EWR Consortium Rail

Patrick O’Sullivan – EWR Consortium Rail Consultant

Milton Keynes Parishes’ Forum 13 March 2014 Proposed New Passenger Services Western Section Project Components

Key East West Rail Link – Phase 1 (WCML) (MML) East West Rail Link – Phase 2 Electric Spine – Oxford to Bletchley Milton Keynes Electric Spine – Bletchley to Bedford

Oxford Islip Winslow Oxford Parkway Bicester Town Bletchley Bedford

Aylesbury Vale Parkway To London To London Paddington Marylebone

(Great Western) To Aylesbury Phase 1 Oxford to Bicester East West Rail Phase 1

• Funding agreed by Office of Rail Regulation • Foundations for Bicester chord line installed and earthworks commenced • 25Km of newt fencing installed and hibernaculae constructed • Badger setts stopped up and new setts constructed • Bat surveys required by English Nature completed to their satisfaction • Water Eaton grain silo demolished and site clearance at Banbury Road commenced • Various earthworks and structures designs in progress • Carillion Buckingham JV announced as preferred bidder on 5 December • £87.4m main works contract with CBJV for signing • Secretary of State for transport to visit line on 13 February • Railway will close on Friday 14 February until start of new services in August 2015 • On target for programme completion date in March 2016

New Homes for Badgers! Grain silo at Water Eaton is demolished, making way for Oxford Parkway station Designs for Bicester Town station are unveiled Phase 2 Bicester & Princes Risborough to Milton Keynes and Bedford Current Issues

• Developing Output Specification – DfT aspirations for enhanced specification – Industry consultation through Industry Plan Group – Legal Powers – Programme

• Integrating Electric Spine

• Interface with High Speed 2

• Maintaining momentum

Core Specification Enhanced Specification Integrating Electric Spine

• Oxford – Bletchley confirmed as priority route

• Bletchley – Bedford likely to be delivered later: – Signalling capacity – Level crossings – Stations – Single line sections – Bedford station – Relationship with Midland Main Line

Interface with High Speed 2

To Banbury To Birmingham Bicester North Site of proposed HS2 Maintenance Depot Bicester Town

Claydon LNE To Bletchley To Oxford Junction

Calvert waste disposal site Existing Electrification throughout Oxford East West Rail core to Bletchley (Excluding Claydon scheme to Aylesbury. Potential additional W12 gauging Potential East West Rail / load capability / signalling / line speed works not included in core Proposed HS2 alignment scheme. To London To Aylesbury and London Marylebone Euston Interface with High Speed 2

• EWR Powers included in hybrid bill

• Mutual Programme Risk: – HS2 Powers assent in May 2015 – EWR to be available for HS2 construction traffic via Claydon after 2018

• EWR to be built on final alignment with bridges in place

• HS2 project team included in Industry Plan Group Current Development Work

– Verification of 2009/10 EWRC GRIP 4 Design – Develop Output Specifications – Boundary definition & encroachment identification – Develop level crossings strategy – Structural surveys (including Bletchley flyover) – Bletchley – Milton Keynes capacity study – Environmental Impact Assessment – Formulated consents strategy & draft consents applications – Communications & consultation – Programme Development (Target Completion December 2017)

Vegetation clearance between Bicester and Bletchley February 2014 Vegetation clearance between Bicester and Bletchley February 2014