Nick Rowe Floor 5 5 Callaghan Square Cardiff CF10 5BT 23 October 2019 Alliance Rail Amey Babcock International Group Balfour

Nick Rowe Floor 5 5 Callaghan Square Cardiff CF10 5BT 23 October 2019 Alliance Rail Amey Babcock International Group Balfour Beatty Rail Services Britam Rail British Transport Police (BTP) Centro Colas Rail CrossCountry DB Cargo (UK) Ltd Department for Transport (DfT) Devon & Cornwall Railways Ltd Direct Rail Services Ltd (DRS) East Midlands Trains Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways First Group Freightliner Group Freightliner Heavy Haul Freightliner Ltd GB Railfreight (GBRf) Geldard Consulting GO OP Grand Central Grand Union Trains GrantRail / VolkerRail Great Western Railway (GWR) Harsco Rail Ltd Heathrow Airport Hutchison Ports UK Ltd Legge Infrastructure Services Locomotive Services Ltd Loram UK Maritime Transport Mersey Rail Mersey Travel Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd Cwmbargoed Network Rail Northern Office of Rail and Road (ORR) PD Ports PreMetro Operations Ltd Rail Delivery Group (RDG) Rail Express Systems (RES) Rail Freight Group

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Dear colleague,

Section 18 Track Access Agreement between Amey Keolis Infrastructure / Seilwaith Amey Keolis Limited and Keolis Amey Operations / Gweithrediadau Keolis Amey Limited in relation to franchised passenger services operating on the Cardiff Core Valley Lines network

Amey Keolis Infrastructure / Seilwaith Amey Keolis Limited (“AKIL”) and Keolis Amey Operations / Gweithrediadau Keolis Amey Limited (“KAOL”) are proposing to submit to the ORR an application under Section 18 of the Railways Act 1993 for a new Track Access Contract (Passenger Services). This constitutes formal notification of that proposal.

In line with the Industry Code of practice for Track Access Application Consultations, AKIL is carrying out the industry consultation. This consultation will run for one calendar month from 23 October 2019 until 22 November 2019.

The proposed Track Access Contract (Passenger Services) seeks rights to operate on the Cardiff Core Valley Lines (“CVL”) network which is soon to become a separately-managed network. The rights sought will allow the continued operation of existing train services and services sought by KAOL in their 98th Supplemental agreement with Network Rail Infrastructure Limited. A consultation on the associated amendments to KAOL’s Network Rail Track Access Contract is expected to be issued for consultation by Network Rail very shortly.

A copy of the proposed agreement and the application form are included with this notification.

This notification together with a copy of the proposed agreement along with the application form are also available in our “Consultation Centre” here: https://tfwrail.wales/about-us/consultation- centre. You will also find there other documents supporting this notification.

You do not need to respond if you do not have any comments. However, should you wish to comment upon this proposed agreement, then please do so no later than 22 November 2019.

Please provide your responses to: Nick Rowe at [email protected] and copied to [email protected]

May I respectfully request that any comments are raised with me immediately as they arise, rather than waiting until later in the consultation period to collate and return your comments?

If you are no longer the appropriate contact within your organisation to receive this consultation it would be greatly appreciated if you could correct me, so that I may update my records.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions

Yours faithfully,

Nick Rowe Floor 5, 5 Callaghan Square, Cardiff CF10 5BT

E: [email protected] M: + 44(0)7885 225692

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