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Monday 9 Feb 2004

APPOINTMENTS TO MARK THE NEXT STAGE IN NETWORK RAIL’S RESTRUCTURING PROGRAMME

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National

As part of its ongoing restructuring programme, Network Rail today announces a number of appointments to the new organisation.  The appointments are the latest stage in the process that will position the company to be able to deliver improvements in efficiency and performance. Already huge progress has been made with many goals attained.  To date we have: ·                Developed a new organisational template; ·                Drafted and produced job descriptions for all roles in the new organisation in a standardised format; ·                Carried out early preparation for safety validation ahead of our formal submission next month; ·                Implemented changes in reporting lines this week, notably the Regional Train Planning Managers reporting to John Conway, Head of Operational Planning; and ·                Transferred maintenance contracts from Balfour Beatty in the Wessex area to Network Rail on 30 November (4 months ahead of schedule) and from Serco in the East Midlands area on 31 January 2004. The new functional organisation is being developed around Routes and Territories and today’s announcement identifies some of the key personnel that will be working within this new structure. - more - Appointments - 2 Route Directors - reporting to Robin Gisby, Director, Operations & Customer Services Ron McAulay -   Scotland Robbie Burns -   London North Western John Curley     -   Western Mark Phillips   -   Anglia David Pape      -   Wessex Dave Ward     -    Kent Route Directors for the London North Eastern and Sussex routes remain to be appointed. In addition, Barbara Barnes is appointed to the new role of Head of Customer Service.  This role combines both Freight and Passenger Business and will report to Director, Operations & Customer Services. Territory Maintenance Directors - reporting to Richard Fenny, Director, Maintenance Jim Bellingham            -   Scotland Andrew Hinton          -   London North Eastern Jim Syddall                   -   London North Western David Wilks                -   South East Brian Timms (acting)   -   Western As part of the challenging target to go live with the new structure by May, Network Rail has a number of targets to hit in the coming weeks.  We are confident the appointments we are announcing today will enable us to hit our deadlines and help us to deliver the better railway our customers quite rightly expect.