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North West Route Utilisation Strategy
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<p> The North West Route Utilisation Strategy (NWRUS) is a <a href="/facts/Route_Utilisation_Strategy/7rGglEEa">Route Utilisation Strategy</a>, published by <a href="/facts/Network_Rail/B7RcLTwY">Network Rail</a> in May 2007. It was the fifth RUS to be produced. It was included in a map published by the <a href="/facts/Office_of_Rail_Regulation/LUHFXHF3">Office of Rail Regulation</a> as <a href="/facts/Route_Utilisation_Strategy/7rGglEEa">established</a> in May 2007. It was the first of no fewer than 5 RUSs which cover specific routes in the north-west of England; the others are the <a href="/facts/Network_Rail_Lancashire_and_Cumbria_Route_Utilisation_Strategy/dnX0EM9f">Lancashire & Cumbria RUS</a> (published August 2008), the <a href="/facts/Yorkshire_and_Humber_Route_Utilisation_Strategy/zHfgVc3x">Yorkshire & Humber RUS</a> (published July 2009), the <a href="/facts/Merseyside_Route_Utilisation_Strategy/gDhNwkBz">Merseyside RUS</a> (published March 2009), and the West Coast Main Line RUS (now scheduled for publication in summer 2011). In particular it "broadly covers the Manchester <a href="/facts/Journey_to_work/Nts7LaIM">journey to work</a> area, the City lines into Liverpool Lime Street and routes from Manchester to Kirkby, Southport and Blackpool", corresponding to Network Rail's then Route 20 - North West Urban. </p><p>As with other RUSs, the NWRUS took into account a number of responses, including the <a href="/facts/Office_of_Rail_Regulation/LUHFXHF3">Office of Rail Regulation</a> (ORR). </p><p>The RUS has identified 12 generic issues and relates these to the various rail 'corridors' in the region. As has become customary with RUSs, the recommendations are also nominally grouped into short-term (to end of CP4, March 2009), medium-term (CP5, 2014) and some long-term (thereafter) solutions; however, the individual initiatives are not as clearly located in time as other RUSs. </p><p>Some issues were passed to later RUSs: Lancashire & Cumbria; Merseyside; Yorkshire & Humber; West Coast Main Line. </p><p>A number of issues and provisional recommendations were viewed to be dependent on the December 2008 WCML timetable. The precise effect on these possible recommendations by the implementation of that timetable is difficult to ascertain. </p>