South West Trains & Network Rail form alliance

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South West Trains and Network Rail have announced the launch of a new alliance with ‘the aim of delivering better rail services in the south and south-west of England’.

A single senior joint management team now has responsibility for both trains and track on the route operating out of London Waterloo in a first for the UK rail industry.

It is aiming to ‘cut delays for passengers, provide better customer service, deliver more effective management of disruption, and improve the efficiency of the railway through more collaborative working and better decision-making.’

The new alliance is also ‘expected to benefit rail freight operators who use the Wessex route’.

The alliance is planned to run until 4 February 2017, the expiry date of the South West Trains franchise agreement.

The creation of the alliance follows the publication of the McNulty Report last year, which recommended a package of measures to reduce inefficiencies in the UK rail system.

It also delivers a ‘key element’ of the Government’s Rail Command Paper, issued in March 2012, which called for closer co-operation between operations and infrastructure.

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