Explore
“Be challenging”
Explore Ideas. Helping promoters bring forward high quality ideas that
deliver better value.
This stage is all about helping promoters bring forward high quality ideas that deliver better value and could take roughly 3 months to complete. Be thorough in identifying the interdependencies and objectives, but sometimes less than 100% of the information is enough to take a decision, as long as you understand the potential risk and all relevant parties are involved in the decision. Make risk-based decisions relative to the stage.
“If you want more train services, the first thing you do is to see whether you can do it with the same number of staff and trains. You might then have to employ some more staff. You might have to buy some more trains. You might have to expand some of the stations. You might have to fix the signalling. Only at the end of it would you buy more track. Actually, in this country that is not the way we have thought about it for a long time…whether the transport and economic effects of that could be delivered in a more economical way by the existing system. If we get that right, the investment propositions that come forward will be those that deliver the most for the country and will be far easier for the Chancellor and the Treasury to accept.”
The Exploration Toolkit contains:
Rail Enhancements Hierarchy
Where a railway already exists, improvements can often be made to the train service without the need for expensive new infrastructure. The hierarchy guides users through a range of options for improving train services without infrastructure investment.
Access the Hierarchy page
Access the Hierarchy page
Early stage specification process
Four process steps to take a rail project through at the early stage of development
Access the four-step process.
Access the four-step process.
Concept capture tool
Pause or proceed plan
The pause or proceed plan here is the same as in the ‘Strategy’ section but should be developed separately for each stage.
Read more about the pause or proceed plan.
Download the outline plan.
Read more about the pause or proceed plan.
Download the outline plan.
Where have the railway system animated videos gone?
These are now located on the Rail Enhancements Hierarchy page as they relate to content which is described there.