The Freight Route Utilisation Strategy is a Route Utilisation Strategy in the United Kingdom, published by Network Rail in March 2007.[1][2][3][4] It is one of only two (the Network RUS is the other) which have the perspective of the network as whole. It was included in a map published by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) as established in May 2007.[5] As with other RUSs, the Freight RUS took into account a number of responses[6] to a Draft for Consultation,[7][8] including those from the ORR.[9]
To quote the foreword:
Rail freight...has grown rapidly in the last 10 years...this strategy forecasts further growth of up to 30 percent [sic] – the equivalent of an extra 240 freight trains per day – over the next ten years [to 2014/5 from 2004/5]. For this additional demand to be met by road freight...would lead to around an extra 1.5 million lorry journeys on the roads each year.
The study recommended a number of approaches and enhancements to the network. Like other strategies in this series, recommendations are divided into short-term (Control Period 3, CP3, to March 2009), medium-term (CP4, to March 2014), and long-term (CP5, thereafter).
A notable recommendation is the enhancement of the loading gauge from Southampton and the East Anglia coast ports to the West Coast Main Line (WCML), as most growth was expected in the carriage of deep-sea containers and coal for the electricity-generating industry, mainly for the Trent valley and Aire valley power stations. Much coal is imported via the east coast ports.
A key issue is the loading gauge of routes for freight in sea-going (9' 6" in height, 2500 mm in width) containers. Such loads are accommodated on routes cleared to W10 on standard wagons. W12 is only slightly wider than W10, and the Freight RUS recommended that where structures are renewed the starting assumption should be that they are cleared to W12.
Unlike passenger services, which over the course of a day tend to have comparable flows in both directions, freight movements are unidirectional. Even though rolling stock usually needs to return to the original departure point, this may be via a different route, and constraints arising from fully loaded trains and steep gradients may disappear for returning empty trains.
^"Route Utilisation Strategies (RUS)". Retrieved 18 November 2012.
^"Freight RUS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
^An abstract from the Amicus Trade Union Archived 8 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^"fcp quarterly, Spring 2007, p.4" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
^"May 2007 map of RUSs" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2007.
^Sources:
Tfl's response to consultation
"Rail Freight Group response to consultation". Railfreightgroup.com. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
EWS Railway response to consultation Archived 29 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^"Freight RUS Draft for Consultation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
^"Freight on Rail briefing document". Freightonrail.org.uk. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
^"ORR's response to consultation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
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