Agenda

The Chair to welcome attendees to the meeting.

Lead: Chair

Members are required to declare any personal, prejudicial or disclosable pecuniary interest they may have relating to items on the agenda and state the nature of such interest.

Lead: Chair

To consider the approval and signature of the minutes of the previous meeting as a correct record and to consider any requests for updates on matters contained therein.

Lead: Chair

To provide the Committee with an update on the Rail Accessibility Workstream, which includes proposals for how to take the programme forward to delivery.

Lead: David Worsley

To provide the Committee with an overview of the infrastructure investment State of Play for the Norths railways.

Lead: Charlie French

To update the Committee on progress with the Outline Passenger Service Specification (OPSS) for Northern and TransPennine Express, and seek feedback on the initial Vision Statement.

Lead: Matt Oxby

To provide an update to Rail North Committee on the work of the East Coast Main Line Task Force which has been established to provide advice on how to resolve issues associated with the introduction of a new timetable on the East Coast Main Line.

Lead: Jonathan Brown

To update the Committee on operational rail matters, including performance, and to ask members to note the information in the report. Representatives from Cross Country (XC), Northern and TransPennine Trains (TPT) will be on the call to answer members’ questions.

Lead: Gary Bogan

The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 19 November, 11am – 1pm on Microsoft Teams.

Lead: Chair

To resolve that the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of Item 11 on the grounds that: 

(1) It is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during such item(s), confidential information as defined in S100A(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) would be disclosed to them in breach of the obligation of confidence; and/or

(2) it / they involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as set out in the Paragraph 4 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Lead: Chair

To provide an update and overview of the Northern Trains Recovery Plan which has been developed in response to the recent Breach Notice issued for unacceptable levels of performance. Northern Trains will present the key points from the Recovery Plan and Rail North Partnership will be in attendance to advise on the next steps.

Leads: David Hoggarth/Caroline Young