Route Strategic Plan | 2019 to 2027 Wessex Route Trusted by our customers to deliver a safe and reliable railway in Wessex Version 4.30 – March 2019 Wessex Route Strategic Plan Contents 1. Foreword and summary ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Route objectives ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 3. Safety .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 4. Train performance ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 24 5. Locally driven measures ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 31 6. Sustainability and asset management capability ................................................................................................................................................. 36 7. Financial performance.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 56 8. Activities & expenditure ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 59 9. Delivery strategy .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 70 10. Headwinds and efficiency .................................................................................................................................................................................... 79 11. Risk and uncertainty in the CP6 plan ................................................................................................................................................................... 82 12. CP6 regulatory framework ................................................................................................................................................................................... 85 13. Sign-off ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 87 Stakeholder Engagement ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 88 Key assumptions ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 98 Route context ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 101 Scenario planning ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 103 Asset by asset long term forecast ...................................................................................................................................................................... 109 Efficient Delivery Supporting Information ......................................................................................................................................................... 114 Wessex Route Freight and National Passenger Operators ................................................................................................................................ 118 Supporting Strategies ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 124 List of Supporting Annexes ................................................................................................................................................................................. 129 Glossary of terms ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 132 Network Rail 2 Wessex Route Strategic Plan 1. Foreword and summary Foreword I am delighted to present Wessex from enhancement projects will be funded and delivered separately on a Route’s Control Period 6 (CP6) Strategic rolling basis with the Department for Transport and third-party investors. Business Plan for 2019-2024. This can include anything from a new lift at a station to improve access, through to a major capacity enhancement to make room for more trains We run one of the busiest parts of on our tracks. this additional investment in the railway will bring further Britain’s railway, with 230 million economic benefits across the region. passengers and over 500 million tonne- km of freight traveling across our I am proud to be leading a professional team of more than 1,800 people, network every year. Waterloo station is the busiest in the country serving working 24/7 across the route, delivering value for money services for our around 330,000 passengers – equal to four full capacity crowds at communities, passengers and businesses. We will work jointly with our Twickenham stadium - every day. train and freight operating companies, particularly South Western Railway, to ensure we deliver the right outcomes for our customers. Our purpose is to connect people, businesses and communities, in support to economic growth for all. I firmly believe it is only when we put Andy Thomas, Route Managing Director, Wessex Route passengers and freight at the heart of our operations, will we ensure our customers safely get to where they want to go on time, whilst keeping We support this plan that NR Wessex has submitted and sign up to the them informed and minimising service impacts during any potential vision and outcomes that the Wessex Route aspires to achieve in the long disruption. term. However, SWR are not able to sign off on the PPM targets included within the submission due to the shortfall between these and the To deliver our purpose over CP6, and meet our strategic business plan franchise targets set. We, at SWR, urge commitments, we have been awarded more than £2 billion of funding - the ORR to take up all the options that the this is 20% more than we were awarded in Control Period 5 - which will Wessex Route has included within its be invested across the region. This is really good news, as in setting our costed options which will help to deliver business plan we listened to our operators and the wider community, to the much needed performance ensure we achieved the best possible outcome for all. improvements of this essential part of the This funding will support the operations, maintenance and renewals rail network. needed to operate our existing infrastructure. Service improvements Andy Mellors, Managing Director, South Western Railway Network Rail 3 Wessex Route Strategic Plan Our Vision Our Stakeholders Our complex industry attracts stakeholder influence from many corners, Our Purpose summarised in the diagram below. Connecting people, businesses and communities, which in turn supports jobs and economic growth right across the region, for the benefit of all Our Mission To operate, maintain and enhance the rail infrastructure that provides connections between London and the South West Our Vision To be trusted by our customers to deliver a safe and reliable railway in Wessex At a glance We worked closely with our stakeholders, including train and freight operating companies, local authorities, passenger groups, politicians and business groups in defining our priorities for CP6 to make sure we understood their needs and that our objectives were aligned. This included running a series of stakeholder workshops before drafting our Network Rail 4 Wessex Route Strategic Plan CP6 plans. The stakeholder engagement activities and requirements for Ambassadors who support schools across our route to encourage young this plan are captured in Appendix A. Our CP6 stakeholder engagement people into STEM subjects and a future career in the railway. strategy, appendix H sets out to improve our public facing processes, Strategic Overview tools and communication, providing much needed structure to capture system requirements for CP7 and beyond. This Strategic Plan is the second step on a 20-year period of extensive The key themes raised by our freight and passenger operators are: upgrades to the Wessex network. In CP5; we have established a strong, devolved organisational structure within our new ROC at Basingstoke and • Better consultation in access planning delivered the