Strategic Business Plan Update 2008

Since publishing the 2007 Strategic Business Plan (SBP) – our framework for addressing the challenges facing the railway in the coming years – Network Rail has been in discussions with the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), our industry partners and internal stakeholders to identify areas requiring further work.

Following these discussions, the company has issued its April 2008 Strategic Business Plan Update. This document aims to address issues that have become apparent since the plan was published, and provides further justification and evidence to support the projections in our original Strategic Business Plan.

The document is not intended to be a full refresh of the 2007 Strategic Business Plan. Instead, it should be read in conjunction with the original plan and the supporting material that was provided with it.

Over the coming months the plan will continue to be revised in consultation with our industry partners, and in March 2009 Network Rail will publish our final plan for the next five years.

This will set out what needs to be delivered to allow the railway to grow and thrive, and will outline plans to deal with some of the most pressing challenges for the period 2009 to 2014.

The Strategic Business Plan was published against a background of strong growth, improving safety and sustained improvements across the whole industry. Since publishing the Strategic Business Plan, the industry has continued to make progress on a number of fronts. Demand growth has remained strong and punctuality is now approaching 90 per cent across Britain on a moving annual average basis for the first time for a decade. The Strategic Business Plan update sets out our plans to:

• deliver substantial, further improvements in efficiency
• reach levels of punctuality which have never been seen before with more people and improved journey times
• deliver several billion pounds of investment every year while continuing to operate an increasingly congested railway
• operate an increasingly seven-day railway to create additional industry revenue and better services to users and
• become more flexible in meeting the aspirations of our industry partners.

Strategic Business Plan Update

	Title	Size	Date
	Strategic Business Plan Update	1.48Mb	4 Apr 08

Route Plans

The route plans below are those referred to in the 2008 Strategic Business Plan Update. For the latest route plans  click here.

	Title	Size	Date
	Route 1 - Kent	1.04MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 2 - Brighton Main Line and Sussex	1.05MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 3 - South West Main Line	1.00MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 4 - Wessex Routes	912KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 5 - West Anglia	962KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 6 - North London Line and Thameside	970KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 7 - Great Eastern	1.04MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 8 - East Coast Main Line	1.07MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 9 - North East Routes	980KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 10 - North Trans-Pennine, North and West Yorkshire	980KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 11 - South Trans-Pennine, South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire	993KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 12 - Reading to Penzance	956KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 13 - Great Western Main Line	1.05MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 14 - South and Central Wales and Borders	945KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 15 - South Wales Valleys	903KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 16 - Chilterns	904KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 17 - West Midlands	1.39MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 18 - West Coast Main Line	1.02MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 19 - Midland Main Line and East Midlands	987KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 20 - North West Urban	1.22MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 21 - Merseyrail	912KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 22 - North Wales and Borders	902KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 23 - North West Rural	1.00MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 24 - East of Scotland	1.14MB	4 Apr 08
	Route 25 - Highlands	887KB	4 Apr 08
	Route 26 - Strathclyde and South West Scotland	1.08MB	4 Apr 08
	Additional Information - Stations	164Kb	19 May 08

Supporting Documents

	Title	Size	Date
	Rail infrastructure cost benchmarking assessment (BSL)	773kb	4 Apr 08
	Assessing Network Rail's scope for efficiency gains (LECG)	337kb	4 Apr 08
	Input price trends report (LEK)	766kb	4 Apr 08
	7 day railway report	405kb	4 Apr 08
	NSIP update	111kb	4 Apr 08
	Strategic Freight Network paper	518kb	4 Apr 08
	Structure of charges	354kb	4 Apr 08
	Structure of charges appendices	124kb	4 Apr 08
	Appendix 2: variable usage charges (passenger)	168kb	4 Apr 08
	Appendix 3: variable usage charges (freight)	199kb	4 Apr 08
	TTCI report: variable charges methodology	949kb	4 Apr 08
	TTCI report: user guide for variable charges model	314kb	4 Apr 08