1. Kent Route Study – Draft for Consultation
South East Franchise
Alex Hellier, Paul Best & Keeley Holland
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2. Draft Study published – 14th March 2017
Timescales
Draft Study published – 14th March 2017
Consultation closes – 30th June 2017
Final Study published – Autumn 2017
LTTP
Market Studies presented the forecast future rail demand, which is tested for sensitivity with the known housing growth supplied by local authorities.
The Route Studies Set out the strategic options which address the demands that are forecast to be placed on the UK railway network. It is cross industry process, so shouldn’t just be seen as NR’s view of the world.
The outputs of the Route Study process will be:
Long Term Strategy (up to 2044)
Choices for funders (up to 2024) to feed into the Control Period 6 Initial Industry Advice
Route Studies seek to identify the options available to accommodate the Conditional Outputs on the network:
By making best use of existing capacity
Assess the business case for interventions
We published the Kent Study a couple of weeks ago and I’m very pleased to have the chance to come and talk to you about it today. The documents are available on the NR website.
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3. Route Study Priorities
Constraints
Meeting service level conditional outputs compared with baseline infrastructure (on train and station capacity, frequency, journey times etc…)
Understand the impacts of meeting gaps on:
Performance, resilience, maintenance and other conditional outputs
Toolkit of options:
Timetabling, electrification, rolling stock capacity/configuration and type, lengthening, infrastructure, alternative solutions
Out of scope:
Performance against commitments, affordability of existing commitments, quality of rolling stock, pricing and ticketing, car parks and station facilities
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4. Kent Route Geographic Scope
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5. Growth Key Headlines for Kent
Demand up can 2024 can largely be met by lengthening of existing services to maximum length.
Beyond this there are no simple options to increase capacity on services to Charing Cross and Cannon Street – further work needed.
Some stations are in the top 10 of national priorities for investment
Lewisham, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill
There are opportunities to improve connectivity and the resilience of the network.
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6. Metro Area
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7. Main Line Area
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8. High speed & Marshlink
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9. Any questions?
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