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National Rail Enquiries - Christmas and New Year Travel Summary 2013/2014
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Network Rail - Press Releases.
Hellifield transformation complete
Network Rail has completed a project to refurbish historic Hellifield station in the Yorkshire Dales.
New £25m Haymarket station opens for passengers
Transport Minister Keith Brown officially opened Haymarket station’s new main building and concourse today (Thursday, December 19) as the £25m redevelopment of the facility nears completion.
Rail passengers are being reminded that road transport will replace trains through Peterborough on Friday 27 December. This will allow work to remove a bottle neck on the East Coast Main Line. Network Rail, East Coast and First Capital Connect are working together to provide additional passenger support at Huntingdon, Peterborough and Grantham stations. Passengers are advised to travel on another date if possible and to check with their operator or National Rail Enquiries before they set off.
Major bridge improvement work in Kendal
Motorists using Longpool and Shap road in Kendal should allow extra time for their journeys from January as Network Rail starts a major project to spruce up Longpool railway bridge in the town.
Network Rail responds to ONS reclassification announcement
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today announced a statistical change to its classification of Network Rail as a result of changes in European accounting guidelines.
As a result, Network Rail's debt, around £30bn, is to be reclassified as public sector debt for the purpose of government statistics. These new guidelines and the resulting reclassification come into effect on 1st September 2014.
This reclassification of Network Rail as a central government body is a statistical decision that does not alter the company's structure as a not-for-dividend company, limited by guarantee, with Members rather than shareholders. The business acts and operates today as it did yesterday, and its job of delivering a safe, reliable and improving railway for four million daily users continues.
Network Rail and the DfT have also published today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that gives some more detail of how they will work together to ensure that the company's business continues as usual. The MoU also acknowledges that some small changes will be necessary as the company becomes accountable to parliament for its finances. At least initially, the company will continue to raise debt to fund its ongoing investment programme whilst the longer term funding options are considered.
Critically, for example, the company will retain the commercial freedom to work collaboratively with train operators and suppliers in delivering sustainable improvements in the railway under the well established regulatory framework that provides stability of funding through the five year regulatory review process.
Network Rail awards £1.2bn infrastructure deals to boost rail in London & south east.
Network Rail has kickstarted its infrastructure investment plans for London and the south east for the next five years by nominating four preferred suppliers for contracts worth a total of £1.2bn.
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This reclassification of Network Rail as a central government body is a statistical decision that does not alter the company's structure as a not-for-dividend company, limited by guarantee, with Members rather than shareholders. The business acts and operates today as it did yesterday, and its job of delivering a safe, reliable and improving railway for four million daily users continues.
Network Rail and the DfT have also published today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that gives some more detail of how they will work together to ensure that the company's business continues as usual. The MoU also acknowledges that some small changes will be necessary as the company becomes accountable to parliament for its finances. At least initially, the company will continue to raise debt to fund its ongoing investment programme whilst the longer term funding options are considered.
Critically, for example, the company will retain the commercial freedom to work collaboratively with train operators and suppliers in delivering sustainable improvements in the railway under the well established regulatory framework that provides stability of funding through the five year regulatory review process.
Network Rail awards £1.2bn infrastructure deals to boost rail in London & south east.
Network Rail has kickstarted its infrastructure investment plans for London and the south east for the next five years by nominating four preferred suppliers for contracts worth a total of £1.2bn.
The framework agreements, which will come into force on 1 April 2014, will cover almost half Network Rail’s £2.5bn workbank for the 2014-19 funding period in the region, delivering longer platforms for longer trains on key commuter routes, station enhancements, new footbridges to improve accessibility and upgrades to bridges, embankments and tunnels to increase the resilience of the infrastructure in some of the most intensely-used parts of Britain’s rail network.
VolkerFitzpatrick, Costain, BAM Nuttall and Geoffrey Osborne are the four suppliers who will work with Network Rail’s regional infrastructure projects business to build a bigger, better railway on the Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Wessex routes.
Nick Elliott, southern regional director for infrastructure projects, Network Rail, said: “The number of people travelling by rail has more than doubled in the last decade and is predicted to grow by a further 400m by 2020.
“To help meet this growth in demand, our plans for the next five years will help deliver a 20% increase in the number of seats into London at the busiest times of day. We’ll do this not only through big, high-profile schemes, but also by targeted investment to lengthen platforms, improve stations, increase accessibility and make our infrastructure more reliable across London and the south east.
“I look forward to working with our suppliers to build a bigger, better railway for passengers in and around the capital and to help support the region’s economic growth.”
The frameworks agreements have been designed to encourage increased collaboration between Network Rail and its partners, and will incorporate shared objectives to enable both sides to share in risk and reward and to incentivise safe, efficient project delivery. Safety accounted for 15% of the evaluation criteria for suppliers, which is a significant increase on previous frameworks and highlights Network Rail’s commitment to improving workforce safety.
Nick Elliott continued: “Safety is at the heart of everything we do, so it is right that we reflect that in the way we choose our supply partners. This represents a significant change to the way we assess safety and underlines our commitment to delivering a fundamental improvement in workforce safety within the rail industry.”
VolkerFitzpatrick, Costain, BAM Nuttall and Geoffrey Osborne are the four suppliers who will work with Network Rail’s regional infrastructure projects business to build a bigger, better railway on the Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Wessex routes.
Nick Elliott, southern regional director for infrastructure projects, Network Rail, said: “The number of people travelling by rail has more than doubled in the last decade and is predicted to grow by a further 400m by 2020.
“To help meet this growth in demand, our plans for the next five years will help deliver a 20% increase in the number of seats into London at the busiest times of day. We’ll do this not only through big, high-profile schemes, but also by targeted investment to lengthen platforms, improve stations, increase accessibility and make our infrastructure more reliable across London and the south east.
“I look forward to working with our suppliers to build a bigger, better railway for passengers in and around the capital and to help support the region’s economic growth.”
The frameworks agreements have been designed to encourage increased collaboration between Network Rail and its partners, and will incorporate shared objectives to enable both sides to share in risk and reward and to incentivise safe, efficient project delivery. Safety accounted for 15% of the evaluation criteria for suppliers, which is a significant increase on previous frameworks and highlights Network Rail’s commitment to improving workforce safety.
Nick Elliott continued: “Safety is at the heart of everything we do, so it is right that we reflect that in the way we choose our supply partners. This represents a significant change to the way we assess safety and underlines our commitment to delivering a fundamental improvement in workforce safety within the rail industry.”
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Direct TGV France - Spain welcome their first passengers 15 December 2013
Today 15 December 2013, the new high-speed rail service RENFE - SNCF is officially launched.
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“I want access to public transport to be a given, and Lyon’s tram-train is part of that grand plan.”
Jean-Jack Queyranne, President, Rhône-Alpes Region
Jean-Jack Queyranne, President, Rhône-Alpes Region
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On the occasion of holiday departures Christmas all SNCF staff is mobilized to accommodate 5 million passengers are expected to use 12,000 trains of 20 December 2013 to 5 January 2014.
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Regiolis ON LINE PARIS-GRANVILLE
Laurent Beauvais, President of the Region Lower Normandy, Guillaume Pepy, SNCF, and Jerome Wallut, Managing Director of Alstom Transport France, presented today, Wednesday, December 18, 2013, the first train Regiolis the colors of the Basse-Normandie and launched the construction work of the new maintenance station in Granville. From the summer of 2014, this new generation more comfortable trains begin to run on the line Paris Granville. Objective: the current hardware is fully replaced at the end of 2015.
German railway modernized existing rail network in 2014, with around 4.6 billion euros
Web to increase their use of funds for maintenance • Dr. Volker Kefer: "Modernization is a prerequisite for more traffic on the rail passenger information is paramount."
(Berlin, December 12, 2013) The German train sets in 2014 continues the comprehensive modernization of its existing network. Around 4.6 billion euros will be invested in the coming year in the renovation and renewal of existing routes, equipment and technology. "The modernization of our 34,000-kilometer route network is crucial for more traffic on the rail," explains Dr. Volker Kefer, DB board member for infrastructure and services. "Just for the maintenance, we will spend about 200 million euros more than last year. In addition, the federal government with the currently extended to 2015 performance and Finanzierungsvereinbarung2013 and 2014 250 million euros each in addition to the 2.5 billion euro per annum for maintenance and refurbishment ready. In order to hold the infrastructure with the necessary quality, but also after the requisite funding is essential. "
2014, more than 3,000 kilometers of track, 2,350 points, more than two million railway sleepers and about four million tons of ballast to be replaced. In order to perform various construction work at a stretch and at the same time as the number and duration to reduce construction-related closures to a minimum, the path brings together the biggest measures in specific corridors. In 2014 there are 65 corridors with more than 755 individual measures.
"Despite these optimized processes to restrictions in rail traffic during the construction can not be avoided completely, unfortunately. To ensure a reliable travel planning, is for us the most comprehensive and timely information to the passengers at the top, "says Dr. Kefer.
Train customers in the DB outlets on Rail Infrastructure Works free phone (0800 599 66 55), on the Internet and to the DB-machines for the construction period information, based on the roadmap. In addition, informed "Max Mole", the site of the Ambassador DB, with posters, brochures, advertisements and notice boards in the stations and daily media as well as on the train. More current construction information is available also on the Internet at www.bahn.de / construction work and for mobile devices such as iPhone or Blackberry even go under: bauarbeiten.bahn.de / mobile .
The most important construction sites in 2014
1 Hannover-Hamburg
During the months of June and July, the Hamburg-Hannover is only single track sections passable. Most ICE trains will be diverted via Rotenburg (Wümme) and need for the route Hamburg-Hannover about 20 minutes longer. IC trains are canceled between Hamburg and Hanover, but keep ICE trains in Celle, Uelzen and Lüneburg. Construction on the third track between point and Lüneburg to be completed this year.
2 Frankfurt-Fulda
From early March to early June, the Schlüchterner tunnel is single track to drive, because the new tunnel must be included in the route. The ICE on the relation Frankfurt-Berlin have during this measure approximately 15 minutes longer travel time. In parallel, the long-distance transport platforms will be six to nine major overhaul in Frankfurt Central Station. The ICE lines Dortmund and Munich Hamburg-Zürich/Stuttgart by derogation in Frankfurt Süd and not go over the main railway station.
3 Munich-Salzburg
From the 7th April to 27 November will be carried out between Rosenheim and Salzburg extensive bridge rehabilitation work in sections require a single-track management. In passenger transport, it comes out on the track to driving time extensions of around 10 minutes beyond falling transport services between Traunstein and Waging. In freight transport, partially long-range diversions are necessary.
4th Karlsruhe Mannheim
The line Mannheim-Karlsruhe is 31 July to 15 September completely blocked. Between Graben-Neudorf and Karlsruhe-Hagsfeld the main lines to be replaced. In addition, in Friedrichstal, Blankenloch and Karlsruhe-Hagsfeld platform works take place. Long-distance transport is mainly diverted with travel time extensions beyond Bruchsal, in the transport occurs in the affected section to cancellations. Partial end ICE / IC performance in Mannheim and Heidelberg.
5 Munich-Ingolstadt
The infrastructure between Munich and Ingolstadt is renewed and upgraded to a top speed up to 200 km / hr. In this context, the routing line improvements are required. For this reason the route is open all year sections of single track passable. For long-distance and local transport therefore has only limited capacities are available throughout the year so that redirection over Augsburg (long-distance) and partial failure of train services (transport) are required.
6 Leipzig node
After completion of the work for the City-Tunnel Leipzig 2014/15 extensive construction to incorporate the new high speed line Erfurt-Halle (VDE 8.2) take place over the years. These include remodeling / renovation of the long-distance transport platforms (tracks 10 to 15). Against this background, the lines of long-distance transport is adjusted fundamentally. In Dresden is again offered in this way an hourly service.
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