Strategic Business Plan

Britain’s railways have enjoyed a resurgence in the last five years and much has been achieved with over 90% of trains arriving on time. The number of late or cancelled trains has been halved and over £1billion has been saved from the cost of running the network.

This success has led to a significant increase in demand with more people choosing to travel by train than at any time since 1946. Our network is the fastest growing in Europe with 43% passenger and 60% freight growth since 1996.

The Strategic Business Plan for 2009 to 2014 deals with the challenges this presents. It is the shared industry view of what needs to be delivered to allow the railway to grow and thrive.

It is Network Rail’s formal response to the Government’s High Level Output Specification (July 2007), and our first major submission to the Office of Rail Regulation’s (ORR’s) periodic review.

A summary of the plan is available here. The full plan and individual route plans are available below:

Strategic Business Plan

	Title	Size	Date
	Strategic Business Plan	1.78Mb	1 Nov 07

Route Plans

The route plans below are those referred to in the 2007 Strategic Business Plan. For the latest route plans click here.

	Title	Size	Date
	Route 1 - Kent	2.28Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 2 - Brighton Main Line and Sussex	1.80Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 3 - South West Main Line	2.30Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 4 - Wessex Routes	1.00Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 5 - West Anglia	1.70Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 6 - North London Line and Thameside	1.60Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 7 - Great Eastern	1.50Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 8 - East Coast Main Line	985Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 9 - North East Routes	1.27Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 10 - North Trans-Pennine, North and West Yorkshire	896Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 11 - South Trans-Pennine, South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire	845Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 12 - Reading to Penzance	810Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 13 - Great Western Main Line	1.11Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 14 - South and Central Wales and Borders	1.36Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 15 - South Wales Valleys	648Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 16 - Chilterns	731Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 17 - West Midlands	1.26Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 18 - West Coast Main Line	1.04Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 19 - Midland Main Line and East Midlands	857Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 20 - North West Urban	1.19Mb	1 Nov 07
	Route 21 - Merseyrail	699Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 22 - North Wales and Borders	723Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 23 - North West Rural	839Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 24 - East of Scotland	928Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 25 - Highlands	647Kb	1 Nov 07
	Route 26 - Strathclyde and South West Scotland	1.31Mb	1 Nov 07

Charges

	Title	Size	Date
	Structure of costs & charges	454Kb	1 Nov 07
	Structure of Charges Appendix	463Kb	1 Nov 07
	Structure of charges APPENDIX 2 (Passenger)	15Kb	1 Nov 07
	Structure of charges APPENDIX 2 (Freight)	188Kb	1 Nov 07
	Faber Maunsell Capacity ChargeTariff Report	375Kb	1 Nov 07

Supporting Documents

	Title	Size	Date
	Asset Management	1.88Mb	1 Nov 07
	Community Rail	74Kb	1 Nov 07
	Current Passenger Demand	341Kb	1 Nov 07
	Demand Forecast	53Kb	1 Nov 07
	Freight strategy	82Kb	1 Nov 07
	LEK input price report	213Kb	1 Nov 07
	LEK internal benchmarking	355Kb	1 Nov 07
	Response to external efficiency studies	93Kb	1 Nov 07
	Response to LEK-Oxera	250Kb	1 Nov 07
	Rolling stock	50Kb	1 Nov 07
	Seven Day Railway	454 Kb	1 Nov 07
	Stations Strategy	585Kb	1 Nov 07

Industry Seminar

On Friday 2 November, Network Rail hosted a seminar for the railway industry where the plans proposed in the Strategic Business Plan were discussed. You can download the content from our speakers:

	Title	Size	Date
	Paul Plummer, Director, Planning and Regulation – the challenges ahead	4.47Mb	9 Nov 07
	Peter Henderson, Group Infrastructure Director – delivering the plan	13.3Mb	9 Nov 07