ELECTRIFICATION
approach to the whole industry. Safety is key
As well as working collaboratively with the supply chain, Network Rail has a clear consistent message with regards to electrification and safety: Everyone Home Safe Every Day.
“We have clear, consistent messages. There is no way we will shirk away from them. Network Rail will manage the supply chain and work with our partners to make sure that safety is our priority,” said Dickinson.
“It is not just something we say, it is something we do. At the same time it is a huge opportunity to give the supply chain what it has asked for many years: a greater security of the work line to give them a greater visibility looking forward of where its business is going and greater clarity around where it should be investing.
“We have to achieve this by being economical with resources, keeping those resources safe and keeping passengers safe.”
Through the Rail Electrification Delivery Group (REDG), which grew out of the earlier award- winning Rail Electrification Development Programme (REDP), Network Rail is aiming to collaboratively identify and mitigate the risks associated with electrification by providing a
single focus for national issues and effectively sharing best practice across the various programmes.
Since March 2013, REDG has helped support investment, innovation and resource development; established working groups to share best practice and jointly solve issues; and organised cross-industry learning events.
Dickinson had mentioned a need to grow capacity and employment effectively, and he is confident that through the frameworks the supply chain will be able to invest in upskilling its workforce. But Network Rail also has a large role to play.
“We have a lot of training capability with our academies and our various training centres, and we also have a facility where people can test technologies and ideas before we go live with it,” said Dickinson. “Although the industry is starting from nearly a standing position with regards to electrification, it is offering huge opportunities and potential.”
Opening the door for the future
RTM was told that one of the immediate benefits of electrification is to the environment and the carbon reduction benefits it brings. The programme will also give the network greater speed and is more reliable mode of transport.
In addition, electrification is opening up the door for future technology going forward.
“Many of the new IEP Hitachi trains are coming in with much better specifications in terms of acceleration and deceleration,” said Dickinson. “So we get the increase in capacity in being able to run faster trains on the networks with greater control. It is also moving the industry forward and that is the right thing to do.”
In addition to delivering these major
electrification projects in CP5, the DfT requested in its High Level Output Specification that Network Rail should consider a further rolling programme of electrification for CP6 and beyond. Dickinson said: “We are talking about other schemes that we might be able to take on or bring forward in CP5 and we are talking with government about what more schemes we might do in CP6.
“If these went through we would be talking about between 60-70% of the network becoming electrified over the next 10 years. This would be a massive a step forward,” he concluded.
Roger Dickinson
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