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Chapter 3 - <strong>Integrated</strong> <strong>Public</strong> <strong>Transport</strong> <strong>Strategy</strong><br />

52<br />

sSRA Incremental Output Statements – These schemes are the portfolio of proposals<br />

from which the sSRA will select those to be included in the baseline output agreed<br />

through the Regulator’s final determination for the 2001-06 period.<br />

“Includes options for track and resignalling alterations to improve capacity and operational<br />

flexibility on the Oxford – Worcester – Hereford Route and also in the Worcester –<br />

Droitwich area to accommodate services between the Midlands and Cotswolds.”<br />

Location<br />

WORCESTER<br />

Worcester Foregate<br />

Street<br />

Oxford - Worcester<br />

Oxford - Worcester<br />

Bromsgrove<br />

Birmingham -<br />

Bromsgrove -<br />

Worcester - Hereford<br />

Birmingham -<br />

Bromsgrove -<br />

Worcester - Hereford<br />

Kidderminster<br />

Proposed Actions and Outputs<br />

Detailed scheme being prepared<br />

Provide 4 minute headways between<br />

Droitwich and Worcester<br />

Detailed scheme being prepared for a<br />

turnback facility<br />

Ability to turnaround at Foregate Street<br />

a train from Shrub Hill and Birmingham<br />

Increase capacity to enable two trains<br />

per hour in the with peak direction and<br />

one contra peak as through trains<br />

to/from Paddington<br />

Railtrack proposes to offer sSRA an<br />

alternative output<br />

Crossover points on the sections<br />

Hanborough - Charlbury, Moreton -<br />

Evesham, Evesham - Norton Junction<br />

to allow up and down Cotswold Line<br />

trains to cross<br />

Detailed scheme being prepared<br />

Convert goods loop to accommodate<br />

passenger trains and improve<br />

operational flexibility<br />

Detailed scheme is being prepared<br />

Provide for trains of 4 x 23m vehicles<br />

on Birmingham bound platform at<br />

Bromsgrove<br />

Provide for Birmingham to Cheltenham<br />

via Worcester trains to run in both<br />

directions via Worcester Foregate<br />

Street.<br />

Railtrack proposes to offer sSRA an<br />

alternative output<br />

Ability to turn around on arrival from<br />

Birmingham in both westbound and<br />

eastbound platforms<br />

Estimated Year of<br />

Implementation<br />

2004<br />

2004<br />

2006<br />

2004<br />

2004<br />

2006<br />

2006

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