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« on: June 14, 2013, 17:24:50 »

Maybe the interruption to service has meant that this significant announcement has gone with comment so far.

As I understand it the ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) has provisionally approved the 5 yr investment programme, though I've not managed to find anything in respect of specific projects that made up the programme. Does anyone have a more informed view?

There are still a couple more steps to go through, the next being NR» (Network Rail - home page)'s response to the determination, but I have a feeling that this was the step which would most likely have resulted in a paring back of the proposals.
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2013, 17:49:03 »

NR» (Network Rail - home page) has published its response...:-)

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Following the Office of Rail Regulation^s (ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about)) determination on our strategic business plans and how much it thinks Network Rail needs to deliver in Control Period 5, we will publish our final delivery plan in March 2014.

It's here....
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/publications/strategic-business-plan-for-cp5/

The ORR parred ^2billion of their projections, but didn't cancel any major projects.
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2013, 18:16:36 »

That's just it's public statement. They have to respond formally to ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) by 4th September, following which ORR will produce it's final determination following which....

And we wonder why the privatised railway costs so much.
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« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2013, 19:11:25 »

NR» (Network Rail - home page) has published its response...:-)

It's here....
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/publications/strategic-business-plan-for-cp5/

The ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) parred ^2billion of their projections, but didn't cancel any major projects.


But that NR page is what they published about CP5 (Control Period 5 - the five year period between 2014 and 2019) in January.  It can't be a response to this weeks ORR statement - which is only a draft determination anyway.  It's an ongoing dialogue, as I mentioned in the Bristol area thread a few days ago...
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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2013, 19:16:07 »

Maybe the interruption to service has meant that this significant announcement has gone with comment so far.

As I understand it the ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) has provisionally approved the 5 yr investment programme, though I've not managed to find anything in respect of specific projects that made up the programme. Does anyone have a more informed view? 

I mentioned it in the Bristol area thread here: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=551.msg134400#msg134400

...but only in the context that the local media were predicting ORR to give an explicit yes/no for the four tracking.  But as you've found out as well, ORR are not dealing with individual projects at this stage, it's still very much a high level document...

Paul
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