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Appendix B

Indicative Number of Additional Vehicles required by English TOCs by 2014

  TOC Number of Additional EMU vehicles Number of Additional DMU Vehicles
1 C2C 40 0
2 One 188 0
3 National Express East Coast 0 0
4 First Capital Connect 256 0
5 East Midlands Trains 0 3
6 London Midland 66 26
7 Intercity West Coast 106 0
8 Chiltern 0 12
9 First Great Western 0 52
10 South Western 105 0
11 South Central 106 0
12 South Eastern 110 0
13 Cross Country 0 6
14 Transpennine Express 0 42
15 Northern 24 158
England - Total 1001 299

Notes to the table

The following are the assumed actions which underlie the rolling stock numbers by TOC presented in this Appendix B. They are not intended to be prescriptive, or to limit the development process with the industry, and therefore the final outcome could well be different.

1. The additional vehicles on C2C would be cascaded EMUs – likely to be either ten class 321 units from London Midland or ten class 317 units from the One franchise.

2. The One franchise would take on lease class 321 units cascaded from London Midland. In addition, the franchise would order new EMU vehicles for services on the West Anglia route to Stansted airport, in turn releasing Class 317 vehicles to provide more coaches on other services

3. National Express East Coast is already committed to introducing additional locomotive hauled carriages as part of the recently awarded franchise.

4. First Capital Connect would take on lease class 321 units cascaded from London Midland for use on Great Northern services. First Capital Connect would also take on lease class 313 units cascaded from the London Rail Concession for use on Great Northern inner suburban services. The Thameslink project will also introduced new EMU vehicles.

5.   East Midlands Trains would introduce additional DMU vehicles, cascaded from the Northern franchise, for use on services into Leicester and Nottingham. Alternatively, the Cross Country franchise would provide additional vehicles on services into Leicester.

6. London Midland is already committed to introducing new trains into the franchise. The introduction of these new vehicles will facilitate cascades to other franchises. The London Midland franchise would introduce additional class 323 vehicles cascaded from Northern, (which would be back filled with new build or cascaded vehicles).

7. The Intercity West Coast franchise would introduce additional coaches into the Pendolino trains.

8. It is expected that Chiltern will introduce additional DMU vehicles as part of the existing franchise agreement.

9. First Great Western would introduce additional class 150 DMU vehicles for regional services around Bristol cascaded from London Midland, as well as new DMU vehicles for London suburban services. Furthermore, the possibility of lengthening some existing HST sets to increase capacity on the Thames Valley route into Paddington is being investigated.

10. Additional capacity on South West Trains would be delivered through a combination of new EMU vehicles together with possibly some EMU vehicles cascaded from the South Central franchise.

11. It is expected that the new South Central franchisee will order new suburban EMU vehicles. This will enable them to convert existing class 377 vehicles to operate as dual voltage units and then make them available to First Capital Connect for the operation of Thameslink services. Once new next generation EMUs are introduced on Thameslink, the class 377 vehicles can be returned to the South Central franchise. Furthermore, the introduction of new EMU vehicles on South Central will enable class 465 EMU vehicles to be returned to SouthEastern.

12. Additional capacity is to be delivered in the SouthEastern franchise through the SLC2 timetable maintaining train frequencies and lengths and the introduction of High Speed domestic services to St Pancras.

13. Cross Country franchise is already committed to introducing forty additional vehicles with the introduction of five High Speed Train sets. Additional DMU vehicles would provide additional capacity around Leicester.

14. It is expected that Transpennine Express will introduce additional new DMU vehicles to strengthen existing services and provide additional capacity in many regional conurbations.

15. Northern would introduce new DMU and EMU vehicles not only to deliver additional capacity within the franchise but also to ensure existing DMU and EMU vehicles (class 323 units) can be cascaded. Other additional capacity in the franchise is likely to be provided by cascaded vehicles from the West Midlands franchise and the London rail concession.

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