Strategic Business Plan

Network Rail’s 2007 Strategic Business Plan outlines the rail industry’s strategy for addressing the challenges facing the railway in the coming years.

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 
PDF Icon 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.

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

Charges

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

Supporting Documents

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Asset Management

1.88Mb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon Community Rail 74Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon Current Passenger Demand 341Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon Demand Forecast 53Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon Freight strategy 82Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon LEK input price report 213Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon LEK internal benchmarking 355Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon Response to external efficiency studies 93Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon Response to LEK-Oxera 250Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon Rolling stock 50Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon Seven Day Railway 454 Kb 1 Nov 07
PDF Icon 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 
PDF Icon Paul Plummer, Director, Planning and Regulation – the challenges ahead 4.47Mb 9 Nov 07
PDF Icon Peter Henderson, Group Infrastructure Director – delivering the plan 13.3Mb 9 Nov 07