London North Western

London North Western (LNW) is the Backbone of Britain. It runs from London Euston and Marylebone in the South through the Chiltern and West Midlands regions, the North West of England and Cumbria before joining with Scotland at Gretna. It is home to the West Coast Mainline, the busiest mixed-use railway in Europe and Britain’s economic spine connecting our main cities - London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Our strategic vision for CP6 is “One team safely delivering brilliant services for customers and taxpayers.” This will guide us through the challenges ahead, which are akin to building the railway equivalent of a new Wembley Stadium every six months while continuing to stage more and more matches. Commuter demand for rail travel into Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and London is forecast to grow significantly over the next 20 to 30 years. We need to build a bigger railway to cater for that growing demand while keeping existing services running on time, every time. There will be more passengers and freight to carry on the West Coast - all while managing the impact of HS2 being constructed. That is a major challenge which we will rise to as an industry by holding firmly to our vision, above. Once built HS2 will add much-needed extra capacity on the West Coast. Without HS2 the West Coast will be unable to cater for forecast growth in customer demand beyond the mid-2020s. Our Great North Rail Project will turn its focus to the Transpennine Route Upgrade, improving connections between Leeds and Manchester. A number of external parties are also drawing up plans for developments on Cumbria’s “energy coast.” Major rail improvements would be required to facilitate these schemes, and additional funding would need to be forthcoming. Martin Frobisher Route Managing Director London North Western One team safely delivering brilliant services At a glance for customers and taxpayers.

24% of Britain’s railway Benefits to our passengers £2.5bn spent on Our team will deliver brilliant service to customers through first-class renewals and asset management. We will make investments in asset remote condition monitoring and improving our engineering tools. This will refurbishment in CP5 provide improvements in train performance to each and every train operator within the route, providing better journeys for passengers. 6,009 train services per day Benefits to economy 246.5m annual rail LNW is the Backbone of Britain. We connect commuters with jobs, products to market and people with loved ones. The West passenger journeys Coast Main Line is essential to Britain’s future. By improving performance and boosting capacity we will help facilitate further economic growth in future. By continuing to deliver 7,100 bridges the Great North Rail Project and helping shape plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail, we are moving the major cities of the North closer together. This is creating new jobs and other opportunities across 728 level crossings the North. Likewise in the Midlands, by delivering planned upgrades and helping shape and develop the Midlands Rail Hub plan, we will better connect centres within this region and further afield. On Cumbria’s “energy coast” 159 signal boxes railway upgrades are key to unlocking the nationally- important developments being planned by various external investors (see ‘Planning for the future’ section). 571 stations

4,500 miles of track

6,853 employees Sources of additional funding The LNW route business has a solid history of attracting third party funding for railway enhancements. In the first three years of CP5, £356m of third party enhancement funding was invested. Of this, £260m related to two large projects - Birmingham New Street and our new Bicester-Oxford link enabling new services from Oxford to London Marylebone. A further £96m was spent on wider network and station upgrades. To supplement the available central government funding, LNW has developed a business development strategy to attract increased levels of third party. We have introduced a business development director to lead this strategy. Our vision for CP6 is to explore every opportunity to secure funding for projects to grow the railway. Our priorities will be to secure funding for rail enhancements to: • Accommodate passenger and freight growth: this would include passenger capacity issues at stations, depots / stabling works and enabling longer or more trains. • Support economic growth across the West Midlands and the North West • Meet local needs identified by our partners and stakeholders We intend to explore all potential opportunities for third party funding or financing, working with a wide range of bodies, including businesses, local authorities and sub-national transport bodies.

Our plans for CP6 HS2

• We will support the safe and efficient construction of HS2

Assets

• We aim to continue improving the reliability of our Electrification assets, reducing the number of service-affecting failures • We are increasing our teams to maintain 250 miles of by at least 1% a year newly electrified railway

Safety Performance

• We aim to achieve world-class safety performance by • In most cases, we aim to maintain or better current reducing our Lost-Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) performance levels even as new fleets and timetables by two thirds over CP6 are introduced and HS2 is constructed

Our Stakeholder engagement Following engagement meetings and workshops in 2016 and 2017, we are continuing our dialogue with stakeholders to make sure we have fully captured their needs and aspirations, and we are exploring approaches to best balance the various competing priorities. As part of this process of developing our business plan, we have committed to updating our assessment of stakeholder needs and develop our approach to make sure we maintain visibility of them and to promote an open, transparent dialogue on the feasibility of aspirational schemes.

Stakeholder priorities • Deliver capacity improvements to time and budget • Reduce journey times • Support delivery of HS2 • Deliver better stations and improve network capacity • Achieve agreed performance metrics and minimise delays Cairnryan Planning for the future - CP6 and beyond

Northern Powerhouse Rail: As well as all the CP5 improvements delivered by the Great North Rail Project and anticipated Transpennine Route Upgrade in CP6, we are currently developing Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) for Transport for the North and the Department for Transport. NPR seeks to rebalance Britain’s economy northwards by bringing faster, more frequent train services between Leeds, Manchester, Manchester Airport, Hull, Liverpool, Sheffield and Newcastle. West Coast: HS2’s primary purpose is to bring greater capacity to the full West Coast main line. With West Coast demand for freight and passenger rail travel forecast to double over the next two decades, HS2 is just one part of the solution. West Midlands and Chiltern: Studies indicate that by 2043 demand for rail travel (largely commuters) in the West Midlands is set to significantly increase on the Chiltern route between Birmingham and London Marylebone. The Midlands Rail Hub, which Network Rail is developing for Midlands Connect, proposes capacity- increasing solutions.

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