Steering Group

The Scottish Rail Strategy Steering Group is a single, multi-party group that oversees all work done on rail strategy.

Members include officials from: 

• Transport Scotland
• Network Rail
• First ScotRail
• Office of Rail Regulation

The Steering Group meets once every four to six weeks. Its remit is to ensure maximum co-ordination and synergy of all rail planning work being undertaken in the coming year by all parties in Scotland.

The Steering Group takes an overview of work in the following areas:

• Rail input into the National Transport Strategy
• Rail Strategy
• Scottish Planning Assessment
• Route Utilisation Strategy

The work of the Steering Group helps inform, and is informed by:

• Joint Performance Improvement Plan
• High Level Output Specification
• Franchise Variation

Steering Group Minutes

• Minutes of 13 May 2005
• Minutes of 22 June 2005
• Minutes of 26 July 2005
• Minutes of 08 September 2005
• Minutes of 03 November 2005
• Minutes of 01 December 2005 - Also available is a PDF version (93k) of these minutes
• Minutes 16 February 2006
• Minutes 10 April 2006
• Minutes 01 June 2006