UK’S EIGHTH INTEGRATED CONTROL CENTRE ON THE WAY

Monday 19 Sep 2005

UK’S EIGHTH INTEGRATED CONTROL CENTRE ON THE WAY

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Work has started on constructing a new integrated control centre (ICC) in York. The centre will help cut delays and provide a more reliable railway for passengers on the East Coast Mainline and in the North of England The ICC will bring control staff from Network Rail, GNER and Northern Rail into one single team working together under one roof. Under the new arrangements the track and train operators will come together and adopt common processes under the command of a single decision-maker, the Current Operations Manager, answerable to Network Rail. Similar centres established in other parts of the UK have seen quicker recovery times during disruption with delays cut by up to one-third. For passengers that means vital time saved. The new ICC is being built next to the existing Network Rail Integrated Electrical Control Centre (IECC) behind York Station and will be operational by summer 2006.

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