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Great Eastern Main Line GREAT EASTERN MAIN LINE THE CASE FOR INVESTMENT GREAT EASTERN MAIN LINE — 1 Wells-next- the-sea A149 Cromer GREAT Bacton Fakenham A148 North Walsham TO THE NORTH A140 EASTERN AND THE MIDLANDS Kings Lynn NORWICH Dereham AIRPORT A47 Swaffham Norwich A47 A47 Great MAIN Downham Wymondham Yarmouth Market Peterborough Attleborough A146 Lowestoft A10 Long A11 Stratton LINE Thetford A143 A12 Newmarket Diss A14 TO THE NORTH A14 AND THE MIDLANDS Bury A140 St Edmunds Sizewell Cambridge A134 Stowmarket M11 Ipswich KEY LOCATIONS Haverhill ALONG THE ROUTE Manningtree Felixstowe STANSTED Colchester TO SOUTH EAST AIRPORT Braintree Harwich AND LONDON A120 Witham Chelmsford Clacton Brentwood Basildon A127 Stratford London Southend-on-Sea 2 — THE CASE FOR INVESTMENT productivity benefits are included. People rely on train travel to make The package of improvements we’re journeys that would be inconceivable asking for has the potential to create by car, such as commuting from 5,100 new jobs in Norwich, 5,400 jobs Chelmsford to Liverpool Street during FOREWORD in Ipswich, 10,000 jobs in Colchester, rush-hour. The GEML has a monopoly 8,400 jobs in Chelmsford and 3,700 on those who make these journeys new jobs in Southend. and, as they have no alternative, they need a reliable service. Without The financial benefit of journey time improvements to infrastructure on the savings is estimated at £6m annually. GEML, additional crowding is likely to result in reliability issues. “Over a 30-year period, The road network is also increasingly GILES journey time savings congested across our region and would equate to a total journey times by rail are highly WATLING MP competitive and improving when of £179m.” compared to road. As the economic cost (including consideration for CHAIR OF THE GREAT The total investment cost is estimated time, reliability etc) of travel by rail EASTERN MAIN LINE to be in the region of £660m. The becomes more competitive against TASKFORCE benefit cost ratio is clear at 5.6 the car, more people will switch from which means that for every pound of car travel, leading to further increased investment, £5.60 of economic benefits demand for rail. will be generated, representing very high value for money. Without these improvements, economic and population growth will Forecasts for population and be stifled and our ability to increase Businesses, local authorities and “We need a rail service passenger demand clearly show the our net contribution to UK plc will be education establishments across our region is set for significant growth over curtailed. region are calling on Government to that is not only fit for the next decade, which will inevitably invest in a faster, more reliable rail purpose, but one that is lead to more people using train This report asks the Government to service on the Great Eastern Main services across our region. recognise our strong and compelling Line (GEML). It will drive sustainable fit for the future.” case for investment in the rail economic regeneration and deliver But the economy along the GEML is infrastructure of the GEML to underpin There is strong and compelling long-term, clean, economic growth not performing as well as other areas the delivery of better services and evidence that investment in the across Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk and within a similar distance to London. meet growing passenger demand. GEML could generate up to £9.3bn enable our region to contribute more It is also not growing as fast as other in economic benefits for the region to UK plc. areas and is continuing to fall further once the wider agglomeration and behind over time. GREAT EASTERN MAIN LINE — 3 GREAT EASTERN MAINLINE TASKFORCE The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) Rollout of new train fleet is well Funding secured through the Taskforce was created in November under way with all new intercity Housing and Infrastructure Fund for 2013 by the then Chancellor trains now in service across Beaulieu Station and the passing George Osborne to campaign for the region and the rollout of loop, which will provide additional rail improvements on the mainline. the suburban trains due to be capacity and improved network The Chancellor recognised then complete mid-2022. resilience, benefiting the entire that the GEML rail service simply mainline. Delivery of Beaulieu wasn’t fit for purpose and asked for Franchise agreements have station and passing loop are a Taskforce to define how we could been temporarily replaced by fundamental to this business case. have faster, better journey times Emergency Recovery Measures between Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, Agreements (ERMAs), due to However, even with these investments, provide evidence of the economic the pandemic situation. In East the speed and level of service across benefits to be had from investment in Anglia, the ERMA with Greater the Great Eastern Main Line still falls the railway, and to report back with Anglia is expected to be followed below that of other mainline routes in recommendations. by a direct award contract for the UK. three to five years, after which The report was submitted to a new longer term contract for The key focus for the Taskforce has Government in November 2014 and the operation of services in East therefore shifted slightly to ensuring since then much progress has Anglia is due to be let. additional infrastructure investments, been made: outside the remit of the Emergency Network Rail was awarded £2.2bn Recovery Measures Agreement, are Greater Anglia (owned by Abellio for the East Anglia region for delivered to enable the GEML to be and Mitsui) was announced as the operations, maintenance and the catalyst for economic growth new franchise holder for services renewals of the Anglia network across our region. across East Anglia up to 2025. up to March 2024, reflecting a 21% increase compared to the The new franchise agreement previous five-year period. included the investment of £1.4bn in new trains to completely replace the fleet and new “The key focus for the Taskforce has shifted slightly timetables to deliver significant improvements in journey times, to ensuring additional infrastructure investments” capacity and frequency. 4 — THE CASE FOR INVESTMENT CONTEXT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC The outbreak of Covid-19 and difficult to accurately predict the resulting pandemic has developed long-term impact of the pandemic. rapidly with far-reaching Throughout these uncertain times, impacts on the economy and the railway has played a vital role in business across the country. ensuring Britain’s key workers can Lockdown measures have led travel and vital supplies are kept to unprecedented shutdowns moving. As the country emerges of large parts of the economy from its third lockdown with the simultaneously, with effects being help of the rollout of vaccines, transmitted quickly across all it remains difficult to accurately sectors. Although restrictions are predict the long-term impact of now beginning to ease, it remains the pandemic. GREAT EASTERN MAIN LINE — 5 We are ambitious for future growth creative sector anchored by nationally across our region. Since 2014, more recognised tech clusters centred on than £911m of government funding Ipswich and Norwich’s fast-growing ABOUT OUR has been secured by New Anglia LEP digital creative hubs. Across Essex, the and South East LEP for investment in a creative sector is expanding fast, with range of projects to improve skills, drive emerging concentrations of REGION innovation, support growing businesses digital activity. and improve transport and other infrastructure. With specialisms in telecoms, cyber security, quantum technology, artificial Our area boasts one of Britain’s most intelligence, Internet of Things, important concentrations of vital user experience design, marine and infrastructure assets, including its largest microbiome research, the area has ports, its only international rail link some of the highest concentrations of and four airports; as well as being the knowledge-intensive jobs in the UK. epicentre of the world’s largest market for Home to the largest agri-food sector in offshore wind energy, with expertise in all the UK, it boasts world-leading research forms of energy generation. into plant and soil technology, agricultural systems and health. Building on centuries of innovation, our region is pioneering the technologies Our region is one of the fastest growing and science needed to power, feed and areas in the UK. The population across connect a growing national and global Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk is set to rise population for a cleaner and more significantly with around320,000 new sustainable future. homes planned between 2016 and 2036, including the creation of a new generation There are few places which are so of ‘garden communities’. uniquely equipped to make telling contributions to the major challenges “In total, 80,000 of these facing the world in the 21st century – food properties are expected to be and energy security, healthy ageing and living with environmental change in a built within a 15 mile radius world where technology is of the rail line, representing a advancing rapidly. significant increase in the local population.” We are also vital to UK plc, being one of only two net contributor regions to the But future growth depends on our Treasury and generating a combined region being mobile and accessible and 1 annual GVA of over £70bn fundamental to this success is the quality Our region is at the cutting-edge of digital and reliability of the GEML. It is the pivotal innovation, with a globally competitive artery and the lifeblood for our economy. communications technology and digital 6 — THE CASE FOR INVESTMENT 1 Enterprising Essex: Opportunities and Challenges, Jan 2017; Norfolk and Suffolk Local Industrial Strategy, 2019 OUR ASK Bow Junction remodelling and associated infrastructure including signalling (with required improvements to London Liverpool Street and Stratford stations) to increase Improved signalling between Line speed improvements capacity, connectivity and Shenfield and Colchester to give an hourly 90 minute improve performance to provide further capacity service to Norwich, with and resilience.
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