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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Weight: 56 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-2356
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1808(199909/10)10:5<235::aid-ulr139>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

ORR/99/19: Announces the Rail Regulator's call for Railtrack to reduce delays caused to passenger trains. The Rail Regulator has stated that he expects Railtrack to meet its own target of a 15.6 per cent improvement in minutes delay per passenger train caused over the two-year period to 31 March 2000.

He stated that the two per cent reduction in minutes delay per passenger train in 1998±99 achieved by Railtrack, against the agreed target of 7.5 per cent, was a disappointment. He considers that over the two-year period Railtrack should be achieving the improvement to which it committed itself in January. This was for a further 7.5 per cent per annum improvement in the current year, on top of last year's target ± a reduction of 14.4 per cent overall. According to the Rail Regulator, passengers have every right to expect that this improvement will be delivered.

The Rail Regulator has also told Railtrack that he expects the minutes' delay which Railtrack causes to trains on the Great Western Zone to be reduced by 20 per cent in 1999±2000. Nevertheless, the Great Western Zone did show significant improvement in the latter half of 1998±99, and the Regulator intends to ensure that this is maintained. ORR/99/21: Announces the publication of the Rail Regulator's Annual Report for 1998±99. According to the Rail Regulator, this is a make-or-break year for the railway industry in Great Britain.