Our assessments of Great Britain's railway, published today, show Network Rail is delivering efficiently, but cost pressures remain and industry must keep focus on safety throughout rail reform. Key findings: 🔸 Industry must retain relentless focus on safety throughout rail reform 🔸 Financial constraints on Network Rail require careful management 🔸 Network Rail taking action where train performance needs to improve 🔸 Passenger train punctuality is largely stable, but cancellations have reached record highs, with train operator cancellations the dominant factor. As the industry undergoes rail reform, our Chief Executive John Larkinson emphasises that, "the mainline rail network is at a turning point" and stresses the need for relentless focus on planning and delivery. Read our full annual reports: orr.gov.uk/yearinrail
The best way to achieve safety is much more efficient Quality Management, to deliver customer and commercial value, employing the principles of ISO9001. Afterall safety is only an output of effective management and leadership, not a staring point.
Clearing out the wrong end of the business is going to show that it will not save anything and safety will eventually fail, NR have a habit of getting rid of the safety net and replacing with higher management that end up costing more but is not counted in the overall cost structure and do very little but self promotion!
Insightful
Director at Pragmatex
3moTo summarise then: Jam tomorrow, but no strawberries today...