{"id":67192,"date":"2019-11-12T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=67192"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T08:45:13","slug":"network-rails-devolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/network-rails-devolution\/67192\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Rail&#8217;s devolution journey continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkrail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Network Rail\u2019s<\/a> new geographic regions, established in June, took on accountability for the delivery of all projects within their borders, including track and signalling<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is the second phase of the company\u2019s transformation into a customer and passenger-focused business. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">The changes include more teams transferring to the regions, to the newly established Network Services, as well to the existing Route Services and the chief financial officer (CFO) directorate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Accountability for the delivery of capital delivery projects moves to the regions. There are now five new regional capital delivery directors who report to the regional managing directors:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eastern \u2013 Rob Cairns<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">North West &amp; Central \u2013 Eoin O\u2019Neill<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Scotland \u2013 Kris Kinnear<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Southern \u2013 Tim Coucher (interim)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wales &amp; Western \u2013 Stuart Calvert<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Northern Programmes, a capital projects programme in the North of England, spans Network Rail&#8217;s Eastern and North West and Central regions under the leadership of Chris Montgomery, major programmes director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Accountability for commercial policy, standards and assurance moves to Route Services, which now manages all supply chain operations, contracts and procurement, and other services on behalf of Network Rail regions and routes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The programme of changes included the formation of Network Services which manages six key areas of the railway including national operations, security, telecoms, freight, national performance and passenger information during disruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On 24 June 2019 five regions were created to enable decision making and responsibility to be devolved away from a centralised organisation to smaller, nimbler and customer focussed businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That journey continued in September when 14 routes \u2018went live\u2019 taking on the day-to day responsibility for delivering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/network-rail-safety\/59855\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">safe and reliable railway<\/a> for its millions of passengers and freight users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Haines said at the time: \u201cWe\u2019ve made these changes as a major part of our plan to provide the best possible service for passengers and freight users, to deliver the promises we\u2019ve made for the next five years and to improve the way we work together as an industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Phase three is planned for Summer 2020, with more teams set to transfer into the new structure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkrail.co.uk\/putting-passengers-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putting Passengers First<\/a> programme changes are expected to be completed by the end of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network Rail\u2019s new geographic regions, established in June, took on accountability for the delivery of all projects within their borders, 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