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5 September 2012
The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) has today published its quarterly report showing that Network Rail is failing to deliver its plans to improve punctuality on long distance rail services.
Network Rail’s plans to ensure improvements, which were accepted by the regulator three months ago, followed a warning to the company to deliver better levels of punctuality for passengers on long distance train services or face a substantial penalty. But ORR’s analysis of Network Rail’s performance between 1 April – 21 July 2012 shows that while performance is improving for most long distance operators, there are serious problems affecting some services.
At the end of this quarter, 88.9% of long distance trains arrived at their final destination within ten minutes of the advertised time – 2.2 percentage points below where punctuality should have been at this point in the year, and 0.4 percentage points below that set out in Network Rail’s recovery plan.
ORR has requested that Network Rail quickly identifies what has gone wrong and explain how it will recover the position for 2012-13. When this has been completed, the rail regulator will consider what further action to take. However, if the company fails to deliver the 2013-14 target it will face a substantial financial penalty. The size of any financial penalty will reflect the extent of Network Rail’s failure to meet the commitment, increasing by £1.5 million per 0.1 percentage point it drops below the 92% punctuality target.
The Network Rail Monitor, which also highlights ORR’s assessment of punctuality on London and South East sectors, and the regulator’s overview of Network Rail’s stewardship of the railway infrastructure, can be read at: http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.293
The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) has today published its quarterly report showing that Network Rail is failing to deliver its plans to improve punctuality on long distance rail services.
Network Rail’s plans to ensure improvements, which were accepted by the regulator three months ago, followed a warning to the company to deliver better levels of punctuality for passengers on long distance train services or face a substantial penalty. But ORR’s analysis of Network Rail’s performance between 1 April – 21 July 2012 shows that while performance is improving for most long distance operators, there are serious problems affecting some services.
At the end of this quarter, 88.9% of long distance trains arrived at their final destination within ten minutes of the advertised time – 2.2 percentage points below where punctuality should have been at this point in the year, and 0.4 percentage points below that set out in Network Rail’s recovery plan.
ORR has requested that Network Rail quickly identifies what has gone wrong and explain how it will recover the position for 2012-13. When this has been completed, the rail regulator will consider what further action to take. However, if the company fails to deliver the 2013-14 target it will face a substantial financial penalty. The size of any financial penalty will reflect the extent of Network Rail’s failure to meet the commitment, increasing by £1.5 million per 0.1 percentage point it drops below the 92% punctuality target.
The Network Rail Monitor, which also highlights ORR’s assessment of punctuality on London and South East sectors, and the regulator’s overview of Network Rail’s stewardship of the railway infrastructure, can be read at: http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.293
Network Rail monitor
Welcome to the home page of the Network Rail monitor. We publish this document every three months and it is part of how we hold Network Rail to account. The monitor sets out in plain English how we think Network Rail is doing in delivering its obligations to its customers and funders, and highlights any areas of concern.
Network Rail monitor key statistics publication dates are also available.
The latest monitor is for Q1 2012-13:
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Published 5 September 2012
Overview
We are increasingly concerned that Network Rail is not delivering for its passenger train customers in the long distance and London & South East sectors. Across the network, asset management issues that need to be addressed include a deficient fault management system and a backlog of bridge assessments. Enhancement project delivery has been good.Passenger train performance
Network Rail is failing to deliver the plan we accepted three months ago to recover performance in the long distance sector. Performance is improving for some operators but there are serious problems affecting Virgin and CrossCountry services. Network Rail needs to identify quickly what has gone wrong and act to correct it if it is to avoid further regulatory action. We have already decided it should pay a substantial penalty if targets are missed in March 2014, but that does not mean performance today is any less important. We are increasingly concerned about risks to performance in the London and South East sector. We are assessing Network Rail’s plan to recover performance.Freight train performance
The freight recovery board, set up in line with our enforcement order in January 2012, has resulted in positive engagement across the sector. Network Rail is working constructively with the board to deliver its recovery plan and to reduce delays to freight services. We are now considering the recovery board’s advice as to whether Network Rail is doing enough and complying with its licence.Asset management
A recent study has highlighted deficiencies in Network Rail’s fault management system which underpins effective maintenance; we need to know urgently how and when it will address these. Network Rail is unacceptably behind with making and recording condition inspections of its structures. We have also told the company it needs to deliver its plan to clear a backlog of bridge strength assessments. Nationally, delay minutes due to infrastructure incidents are broadly consistent with last year.Developing the network
Network Rail is delivering the substantial programme of investments agreed for the five-year ‘control period’ to March 2014. Thameslink key output 1 was achieved this quarter, with the completion of the bay platforms at Blackfriars station. We are focusing on monitoring a small number of schemes we judge to be at higher risk, but overall Network Rail is managing risk well.Disruption
Measures for the disruption caused by planned engineering work are well ahead of target, although we are monitoring some recent worsening in the passenger disruption metric.Last updated: 5 September 2012
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