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4.2
4.2 Expenditure summary
The maintenance and renewal expenditure proposals within
this NMS are generally higher than the values in the 1998
Statement.There are three main reasons for this.
1 A significant portion of our infrastructure costs are
related to the volume of traffic carried on the network.
Since the traffic volume has grown significantly in the
past four years,and a higher level of growth is predicted
to occur in the future , the variable component of the
maintenance and renewal costs is greater than previously
stated.
2 The performance targets and other key outputs which
are committed to within this NMS represent
considerable advances compared to current standards,
and where there are costs associated with these
improvements,these have been included.
Table A Expenditure to sustain the network (£M – 1998/99 prices)
3 In the past year, we have undertaken a major exercise to
determine how much we need to spend each year to
sustain the network.This study, carried out with the
assistance of engineering consultants,draws on the
experience of the three years since our flotation.
Our forecast expenditure to sustain the network is given in
the table below. All figures are at constant unit prices.These
expenditures provide for delivery of the growth in passenger
and freight traffic and for delivery of other output targets.
1998/99 1999/2000 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09
MAINTENANCE 710 670 650 640 630 620 610 620 610 610 600
RENEWALS
TYPE OF ASSET
Track 330 290 270 280 280 290 290 290 280 290 290
Structures 150 130 140 160 155 150 150 145 140 140 140
Signalling 200 270 330 420 370 330 230 310 290 260 230
Electrification 35 60 70 60 40 30 40 50 45 40 35
Plant & Machinery 80 70 35 40 40 40 30 15 10 10 10
Telecoms 40 55 60 50 50 40 30 20 20 15 25
Stations 275 270 200 130 120 120 130 120 105 95 100
Depots 25 30 15 30 30 30 30 30 20 20 20
Other 5 5 10 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
RENEWALS TOTAL 1140 1180 1130 1180 1090 1030 930 980 910 870 850
TOTAL 1850 1850 1780 1820 1720 1650 1540 1600 1520 1480 1450
LAST YEAR’S NMS 1930 1850 1650 1390 1260 1240 1220 1100 1090 1130 n/a
A significant portion
of our infrastructure
costs are related to
the volume of traffic
carried on the
network
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