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 held 3 September 2024 and the special meeting held 30 October 2024 as a correct record and to consider any requests for updates on matters contained therein.

Lead: Chair

To consider the update on the Rail Accessibility Workstream, including proposals for how to take the programme forward to delivery.

Lead: David Worsley

To consider the Northern Trains (“Northern”) Remedial Plan, which has been developed in response to the Breach Notice issued to Rail North Partnership in July 2024 and Northern’s Mitigation Plan which was developed to improve the customer experience for the Christmas and New Year period.

Lead: Caroline Young

To consider the work of the East Coast Main Line Task Force.

Lead: Jonathan Brown

To consider the update on rail reform and set out initial thinking on the North’s requirements for upcoming rail reform legislation.

Lead: Alex Woodall

To consider the progress update on the State of Play workstream and associated recommendations endorsed at Rail North Committee in September 2024.

Lead: Charlie French

For the committee to consider the update on operational rail matters, including performance.

Lead: Gary Bogan

The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 25 February at 10.30am.

To resolve that the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of Items 12 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 Paragraphs [listed below] 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.

To consider the approval and signature of the private minutes of the meeting on 2 September 2024 as a correct record and to consider any requests for updates on matters contained therein.

Lead: Chair