This Route Plan is part of a set. 2009 Plans Route Route Plans 2009 To view or download the others Route 7 visit www.networkrail.co.uk Great Eastern Note Other documents in the Delivery Plan This Route Plan forms part of the Control Period 4 7 Route (CP4) Delivery Plan and supersedes the version can be found on the Network Rail website published in April 2008. www.networkrail.co.uk Great Key to route diagrams Eastern 03 KEY Junction Station name Station Station 01 STATION Station name name name name 02 Junction KEY STATION Junction name A A name 1 B 04 KEY STATION KEY STATION Capacity and operational constraints Track descriptions A Location: capacity or operational constraint The colour of the line denotes the route classification Issues on the route 1 Primary Location: issue on the route London and South East commuter Secondary Key planned projects A Rural Location: planned project on the route Freight only Strategic route sections 01 The line shading indicates strategic route sections Listed in the appendix of the route plan which are numbered on the map The width of the line denotes the number of tracks Other symbols Multiple track Key station location Double track KEY STATION Key station on this route Single track KEY STATION Key station on another route Connecting local Other station location Other lines are shown as follows: Station name Other station on this route Line on other route Junction name Junction / other landmark Non Network Rail infrastructure Non operational line communities GRIP stages 1 Output definition 2 Pre-feasibility 3 Option selection 4 Single option selection 5 Detailed design 6 Construction, test and commission 7 Scheme hand back 8 Project close out Cover printed on box board which is both FSC and TCF. 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NET01 59_Route Plan fold outs.qxd:405 x 297 25/3/09 17:59 Page 13 Route 7 Great Eastern The Eastern Regional Planning Assessment Today’s route (RPA), covering the period from 2011 to 2021, The principal elements of the Great Eastern was published by the Department for Transport route are described below. The relevant Strategic (DfT) on 16 February 2006. The RPA sets out Route Section is shown in brackets: scenarios of continuing growth in commuting to the centre of London and Docklands. However, • the main line from London to Norwich (07.01, the current network is already operating at or 07.02 and 07.03) close to capacity in terms of train paths. • branches to Upminster (07.09), Southend Victoria and Southminster (07.05), Braintree The GA RUS has looked at options and (07.06), Colchester Town, Clacton-on-Sea and recommendations for accommodating future Walton-on-the-Naze (07.08) and Harwich growth and whilst some of these Town (07.07) recommendations are being taken forward in • the Sudbury branch (07.10) and the remaining Control Period 4 (CP4), either wholly or partially, branch lines in Norfolk and Suffolk (07.11) to meet the capacity metrics set by the DfT in including the important freight route between their High Level Output Specification (HLOS) Ipswich and the Port of Felixstowe (07.12), published in July 2007, the remainder will be which is the country’s largest container port. taken into further consideration for future There is also a short freight only branch to options of meeting additional growth through Sizewell Power Station (07.04). Control Period 5 (CP5). Section 1: Today’s railway locations along its length, including the Essex county town of Chelmsford and the regional Route context centres of Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich. The Great Eastern main line (GEML) runs The main markets are commuter travel to from London to Norwich and has a number of London, in particular to the City and Docklands, branches that serve the coastal resorts of and business and leisure travellers. The route Southend-on-Sea, Clacton-on-Sea, Walton-on- also provides the main artery for substantial the-Naze, Felixstowe, Lowestoft, Great freight traffic between the east coast ports of Yarmouth, Cromer and Sheringham, as well Felixstowe and Harwich and the rest of the as the Norfolk Broads, the east coast ports country via London. (including Harwich and Felixstowe) and the branch lines to Braintree, Southminster, Along with the West Anglia and Thameside Sudbury and Upminster. The main line routes, the Great Eastern route is included in competes with the primary road network, and the Greater Anglia Route Utilisation Strategy rail services penetrate into the City of London. (GA RUS), which was published by Network Rail in December 2007 and established by the The route serves one of the fastest growing Office of Rail Regulation on 18 February 2008. regions in the country with densely populated The GA RUS covers the period to 2021, but areas at its southern end and some key also includes a longer term view of the strategy for meeting continued growth. NET01 59_Route Plan fold outs.qxd:405 x 297 25/3/09 17:59 Page 13 Route 7 Great Eastern The Eastern Regional Planning Assessment Today’s route (RPA), covering the period from 2011 to 2021, The principal elements of the Great Eastern was published by the Department for Transport route are described below. The relevant Strategic (DfT) on 16 February 2006. The RPA sets out Route Section is shown in brackets: scenarios of continuing growth in commuting to the centre of London and Docklands. However, • the main line from London to Norwich (07.01, the current network is already operating at or 07.02 and 07.03) close to capacity in terms of train paths. • branches to Upminster (07.09), Southend Victoria and Southminster (07.05), Braintree The GA RUS has looked at options and (07.06), Colchester Town, Clacton-on-Sea and recommendations for accommodating future Walton-on-the-Naze (07.08) and Harwich growth and whilst some of these Town (07.07) recommendations are being taken forward in • the Sudbury branch (07.10) and the remaining Control Period 4 (CP4), either wholly or partially, branch lines in Norfolk and Suffolk (07.11) to meet the capacity metrics set by the DfT in including the important freight route between their High Level Output Specification (HLOS) Ipswich and the Port of Felixstowe (07.12), published in July 2007, the remainder will be which is the country’s largest container port. taken into further consideration for future There is also a short freight only branch to options of meeting additional growth through Sizewell Power Station (07.04). Control Period 5 (CP5). Section 1: Today’s railway locations along its length, including the Essex county town of Chelmsford and the regional Route context centres of Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich. The Great Eastern main line (GEML) runs The main markets are commuter travel to from London to Norwich and has a number of London, in particular to the City and Docklands, branches that serve the coastal resorts of and business and leisure travellers. The route Southend-on-Sea, Clacton-on-Sea, Walton-on- also provides the main artery for substantial the-Naze, Felixstowe, Lowestoft, Great freight traffic between the east coast ports of Yarmouth, Cromer and Sheringham, as well Felixstowe and Harwich and the rest of the as the Norfolk Broads, the east coast ports country via London. (including Harwich and Felixstowe) and the branch lines to Braintree, Southminster, Along with the West Anglia and Thameside Sudbury and Upminster. The main line routes, the Great Eastern route is included in competes with the primary road network, and the Greater Anglia Route Utilisation Strategy rail services penetrate into the City of London. (GA RUS), which was published by Network Rail in December 2007 and established by the The route serves one of the fastest growing Office of Rail Regulation on 18 February 2008. regions in the country with densely populated The GA RUS covers the period to 2021, but areas at its southern end and some key also includes a longer term view of the strategy for meeting continued growth. NET01 59_Route Plan fold outs.qxd:405 x 297 25/3/09 17:59 Page 14 Route 7 Great Eastern West M Runton SHERINGHAM CROMER Cromer Jcn Roughton Road Gunton North Walsham 11 Worstead Hoveton & Wroxham Salhouse Brundall J NORWICH 04 Gardens Brundall Acle GREAT Thorpe Jcn YARMOUTH Whitlingham Brundall Jcn Lingwood A Trowse Jcn Jcn Buckenham Route 5 Berney Arms Cantley L Reedham Reedham Jcn 11 Haddiscoe Somerleyton L Oulton Broad North LOWESTOFT Diss Oulton Broad North Jcn Oulton Broad South P Beccles B 03 Brampton Halesworth Darsham Route 5 Saxmundham SIZEWELL 04 Haughley Jcn Melton Wickham Market Woodbridge D STOWMARKET Westerfield Westerfield Jcn Derby Road Needham Market J 1 12 K Trimley Felixstowe Beach Jcn East Suffolk Jcn Ipswich yard FELIXSTOWE IPSWICH FELIXSTOWE 04 PORT HARWICH PARKESTON SUDBURY QUAY Manningtree Jcns