Delivering a Sustainable Railway - White Paper CM 7176 (HTML version)

Table of contents

• Delivering a Sustainable Railway
• Foreword
• Executive summary
• Present achievement, future challenge
• Tackling the legacy, delivering stability
• The formal specification and long-term strategy
• Improvements to be delivered between now and 2014
• Delivering a better service for passengers
• Delivering rail’s environmental potential
• The plans beyond 2014
• Anticipating the very long term
• A sustainable future railway
• 1. Context
• The starting point
• Economic, environmental and social goals
• Short, medium and long-term planning
• The scope of the White Paper
• 2. Safety and security
• Context and recent trends
• Measuring safety
• Improvements in the period to 2014
• Safety – risks to third parties
• Safety and security – crime, terrorism and health risks
• Future trends
• 3. Reliability
• Context and recent trends
• Causes of delay
• Improvement sought to 2014
• Measuring reliability
• Longer-term challenges and opportunities
• 4. The capacity challenge
• Context and recent trends
• The capacity challenge
• Demand forecasting
• Load factors
• The Government’s capacity specification for 2013/14
• 5. Services for urban areas
• Context and recent trends
• Future prospects
• Delivering improvements for London and the South East
• Delivering improvements for other urban areas
• Planning and greater devolved responsibility
• Future trends in patterns of travel
• 6. Inter-urban services
• Context and recent trends
• Future prospects
• Strategy and delivery
• Planning for flexibility
• 7. Regional and rural services
• Context and recent trends
• Future prospects
• Strategy and delivery
• 8. International
• Context
• Access to airports
• International rail passenger services
• Freight
• The EU role
• 9. Freight
• The need to plan for rail freight
• Rail freight’s history
• Rail freight’s prospects
• Network constraints
• Strategy – the Strategic Freight Network
• Funding
• 10. Delivering for passengers
• Context and recent trends
• Future prospects
• Developing a passenger strategy
• Fare levels
• Fares structure
• Making it easier to buy tickets
• Fast, accurate, helpful information
• Meeting the specific needs of disabled passengers
• Better access to stations
• Improving conditions at stations
• Better travelling conditions on trains
• 11. Improving environmental performance
• Context
• Making a contribution to the environmental agenda
• Future trends
• Framing an environmental strategy
• Government and industry responsibilities
• 12. Costs and funding
• Context
• Post-privatisation financial trends
• Present position and projections for 2009–14
• Longer-term financial position
• 13. Implementation
• The periodic review process
• The role of the ORR
• Confidence in the balance of outputs and funding
• Delivering the Secretary of State’s ‘reasonable requirements’
• Reporting and accountability
• Delivering the longer-term agenda
• Appendix A. Railways Act 2005 Statement
• Introduction
• The High Level Output Specification
• Supplementary high-level specification of major projects and other investments
• Additional information
• Statement of funds available
• Additional financial information
• Schedule to Appendix A: High Level Output Specification Metrics
• Appendix B. Glossary of terms

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