Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales. ^[1]

Amey plc

Amey plc, previously known as Amey Ltd and Amey Roadstone Construction, is a United Kingdom based infrastructure support service provider.

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Babcock International

Babcock International Group plc is a British multinational corporation headquartered in the United Kingdom, that specialise in support services managing complex assets and infrastructure in safety- and mission-critical environments.

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Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty plc is an English multinational infrastructure group with capabilities in construction services, support services and infrastructure investments.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Blackfriars station

Blackfriars, also known as London Blackfriars, is a central London railway station and connected London Underground station located in the City of London.

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Brake Standard Open

A Brake Standard Open or BSO, is a type of railway carriage used by British Rail.

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Bridget Rosewell

Bridget Clare Rosewell, (born 18 Sept 1951) is a British economist.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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British Rail Class 117

The British Rail Class 117 diesel multiple units (DMUs) were built by Pressed Steel from 1959 to 1961.

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British Rail Class 121

Sixteen Class 121 single-car, double-ended driving motor vehicles were built from 1960, numbered 55020–55035.

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British Rail Class 313

The British Rail Class 313 is a dual-voltage electric multiple unit (EMU) train built by BREL York Works between February 1976 and April 1977.

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British Rail Class 414

The British Rail Class 414 (or 2 HAP) were 2-car electric multiple units that were built between 1956 and 1963.

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British Rail Class 489

The British Rail Class 489 (or GLV) is a type of electrical multiple unit, specially converted for use on Gatwick Express trains, from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport.

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British Rail Class 73

The British Rail Class 73 is a British electro-diesel locomotive.

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British Rail Class 950

The British Rail Class 950 is a diesel multiple unit that was purpose-built for departmental use as a track assessment unit.

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British Rail Class 97

British Rail reserved the TOPS Class 97 designation for departmental locomotives, which were used for special or engineering duties.

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British Rail MPV

The Multiple-purpose Vehicle or MPV is a purpose-built departmental derivative of a diesel multiple unit.

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British Rail Telecommunications

British Rail Telecommunications was created in 1992 by British Rail (BR).

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British Railways Mark 2

The Mark 2 family of railway carriages were British Rail's second design of carriages.

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C2c

Trenitalia c2c Limited, Trenitalia c2c Limited formerly NXET Trains Limited trading as c2c, is an English train operating company owned by Trenitalia that operates the Essex Thameside railway franchise.

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Cable & Wireless plc

Cable & Wireless plc was a British telecommunications company.

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Cannon Street station

Cannon Street station, also known as London Cannon Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Travelcard zone 1 located on Cannon Street in the City of London and managed by Network Rail.

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Carillion

Carillion plc was a British multinational facilities management and construction services company headquartered in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, prior to its liquidation, which began in January 2018.

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Chris Grayling

Christopher Stephen Grayling (born 1 April 1962) is a British politician and author serving as the Secretary of State for Transport since July 2016, and as a member of the House of Commons since 2001.

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Colas Rail

Colas Rail is a British rail freight company, formerly known as Seco Rail.

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Control car

A control car, control trailer or driving trailer is a generic term for a non-powered railroad (US) or railway (UIC) vehicle that can control operation of a train from the end opposite to the position of the locomotive.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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CrossCountry

CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the New Cross Country franchise.

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Crossrail

Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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David Higgins (businessman)

Sir David Hartmann Higgins (born 1954) is an Australian-British businessman, the Executive Chairman of High Speed 2 (since 1 March 2014) and the former Chief Executive of Network Rail.

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DB Cargo UK

DB Cargo UK, formerly DB Schenker Rail UK and English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS), is a British rail freight company headquartered in Doncaster, England.

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Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT) is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved.

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Derek Mackay

Derek Mackay (born 30 July 1977) is a Scottish National Party politician who is currently Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Diesel multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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Direct Rail Services

Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a rail freight company in Great Britain.

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Driving Brake Standard Open

A Driving Brake Standard Open (DBSO) is a type of railway carriage, converted to operate as a control car (Not to be confused with DVTs as used in InterCity 225 sets).

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Driving Van Trailer

A Driving Van Trailer (DVT) is a purpose-built control car railway vehicle that allows the driver to operate a locomotive at the opposite end of a train.

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East Midlands Trains

East Midlands Trains (EMT) is a British train operating company owned by Stagecoach Group.

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Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power.

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Electro-diesel locomotive

An electro-diesel locomotive (also referred to as a dual-mode or bi-mode locomotive) is powered either from an electricity supply (like an electric locomotive) or by using the onboard diesel engine (like a diesel-electric locomotive).

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young (doing business as EY) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, England.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers

European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM) is a sector association that represents the interests of European rail infrastructure managers.

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European Rail Traffic Management System in Great Britain

The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) is an initiative backed by the European Union to enhance cross-border interoperability and the procurement of signalling equipment by creating a single Europe-wide standard for train control and command systems.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Financing of the rail industry in Great Britain

The financing of the rail industry in Great Britain is how rail transport in Great Britain is paid for.

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Freightliner Group

Freightliner Group is a rail freight and logistics company, formed in the United Kingdom in 1995, and now having expanded into Australia, The Netherlands and Poland.

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GB Railfreight

GB Railfreight is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom.

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Glasgow Central station

Glasgow Central (Glaschu Mheadhain, Glesga Central) (also known simply as Central) is the major mainline rail terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Government debt

Government debt (also known as public interest, public debt, national debt and sovereign debt) is the debt owed by a government.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Grayrigg derailment

The Grayrigg derailment was a fatal railway accident that occurred at approximately 20:15 GMT on 23 February 2007, just to the south of Grayrigg, Cumbria, in the North West England region of the United Kingdom.

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Great Western main line

The Great Western main line is a main line railway in England, that runs westwards from London Paddington to.

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GSM-R

GSM-R, Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway or GSM-Railway is an international wireless communications standard for railway communication and applications.

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Hatfield rail crash

The Hatfield rail crash was a railway accident on 17 October 2000, at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK.

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Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

The Health and Safety at Work etc.

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Heathrow Express

Heathrow Express is an airport rail link between London Heathrow Airport and Paddington.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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High Speed 1

High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a high-speed railway between London and the United Kingdom end of the Channel Tunnel.

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High Speed 2

High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, directly linking London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds and Manchester.

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History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date

This article is part of a series on the History of rail transport in Great Britain The period from 1995 covers the history of rail transport in Great Britain following the privatisation of British Rail.

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HMS Sultan (establishment)

HMS Sultan is a shore base of the Royal Navy in Gosport, Hampshire, England.

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Hull Paragon Interchange

Hull Paragon Interchange is an integrated rail and bus station in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England.

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Human Rights Act 1998

The Human Rights Act 1998 (c42) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 9 November 1998, and mostly came into force on 2 October 2000.

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Iain Coucher

Iain Michael Coucher (born 22 August 1961, St Albans, Hertfordshire) is a British businessman and consultant in the railway industry.

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Ian McAllister

Sir Ian Gerald McAllister (born 17 August 1943) is a Scottish businessman.

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InterCity 125

InterCity 125 was the brand name of British Rail's diesel-powered High Speed Train (HST) fleet, which was built from 1975 to 1982 and was introduced in 1976.

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Intercity Express Programme

The Intercity Express Programme is an initiative of the Department for Transport (DfT) in the United Kingdom to procure new trains to replace the InterCity 125 and InterCity 225 fleets on the East Coast Main Line and Great Western Main Line.

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Jarvis plc

Jarvis plc was a British company that provided support services to the British railway industry.

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John Armitt

Sir John Alexander Armitt, CBE, FREng, FICE (born 2 February 1946) is an English civil engineer, who was from 2007 Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the body which successfully built the venues, facilities and infrastructure for the 2012 Olympic Games.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Larbert

Larbert (Lèirbert/Leth-pheairt, Lairbert) is a small town in the Falkirk council area of Scotland.

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Level crossing

A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel.

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List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom

This article only covers companies operating trains on Network Rail lines.

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Liverpool Street station

Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate.

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LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman

LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is a Pacific steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Bridge station

London Bridge is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Southwark, south-east London.

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London Paddington station

Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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London Victoria station

Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail.

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London Waterloo station

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, located in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Malcolm Brinded

Malcolm Arthur Brinded CBE (born 18 March 1953) is a British businessman, and former Executive Director for Upstream International and Executive Board Member of Royal Dutch Shell plc and a Non-Executive Director of Network Rail.

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Manchester Oxford Road railway station

Manchester Oxford Road railway station is a railway station in Manchester, England, at the junction of Whitworth Street West and Oxford Street.

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Manchester Victoria station

Manchester Victoria station in Manchester, England is a combined mainline railway station and Metrolink tram stop.

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Mark Carne

Mark Carne CBE is a British businessman who served as executive vice-president for Royal Dutch Shell in the Middle East and North Africa and is currently chief executive of Network Rail, the government company responsible for Britain's railway infrastructure.

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Merseyrail

Merseyrail is both a train operating company (TOC) and a commuter rail network in and around Liverpool City Region, England.

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Michael O'Higgins (economist)

Michael O'Higgins is an Irish economist.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large townAlthough Milton Keynes was specified to be a city in scale and the term "city" is used locally (inter alia to avoid confusion with its constituent towns), formally this title cannot be used.

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National Audit Office (United Kingdom)

The National Audit Office (NAO) is an independent Parliamentary body in the United Kingdom which is responsible for auditing central government departments, government agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

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National Rail

National Rail (NR) in the United Kingdom is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Network Rail Route 23 (North West Rural)

Network Rail's (NR) strategic route 23 encompassed mainly the English rural railway lines of Lancashire and Cumbria.

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Network Rail Route 5 (West Anglia)

Strategic Route 5 - West Anglia was the designation given by Network Rail, from 2004 to 2009, to a grouping of railway lines in the East of England that encompassed the West Anglia Main Line and its various branch lines.

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Network Rail Route 6 (North London Line and Thameside)

Strategic Route 6 - North London Line and Thameside was the designation Network Rail gave to a grouping of railway lines in Greater London and the East of England region that encompassed the London, Tilbury and Southend Line and overground commuter lines within London.

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Network Rail Route 7 (Great Eastern)

Strategic Route 7 - Great Eastern was the designation given by Network Rail, from 2004 to 2009, to a grouping of railway lines in the East of England that encompassed the Great Eastern Main Line and its various branch lines.

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New Measurement Train

The New Measurement Train (NMT), is a specialised train which operates in the United Kingdom to assess the condition of track so that engineers can determine where to work.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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NI Railways

NI Railways, also known as Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) and for a brief period Ulster Transport Railways (UTR), is the railway operator in Northern Ireland.

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Non-departmental public body

In the United Kingdom, non-departmental public body (NDPB) is a classification applied by the Cabinet Office, Treasury, the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations).

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Northern (train operating company)

Northern, the trading name of Arriva Rail North, is a train operating company in Northern England.

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Northern Hub

The Northern Hub is a rail programme in Northern England to improve and increase train services and reduce journey times between its major cities and towns by electrifying lines and removing a major rail bottleneck in Manchester.

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Occupational safety and health

Occupational safety and health (OSH), also commonly referred to as occupational health and safety (OHS), occupational health, or workplace health and safety (WHS), is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Office of Rail and Road

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of Highways England.

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Personal Track Safety

Personal Track Safety (PTS) is a system of safer working practices employed within the United Kingdom designed to ensure the safety of railway workers who have to work on or near the line.

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Peter Hendy

Sir Peter Gerard Hendy, CBE (born 19 March 1953) is the current chairman of Network Rail and was formerly the Commissioner of Transport for London.

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Potters Bar rail accidents

There have been four railway accidents in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, one in 1898, one in 1899, one in 1946 and the latest in 2002.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers (doing business as PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Privatisation of British Rail

The Privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands.

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Public Performance Measure

The Public Performance Measure (PPM) is a measure of the punctuality and reliability of passenger trains in Britain.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Radio Electronic Token Block

Radio Electronic Token Block is a system of railway signalling used in the United Kingdom.

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Rail Accident Investigation Branch

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is a British government agency that investigates rail accidents in the United Kingdom and the Channel Tunnel in order to find a cause, not to lay blame.

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Rail Delivery Group

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) is a membership body in the British railway system, bringing together the companies that run Britain’s railway into a single team with one goal - to deliver a better railway for Britain, its businesses and communities.

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Rail freight in Great Britain

The railway network in Great Britain has been used to transport goods of various types and in varying volumes since the early 19th century.

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Rail Regulator

The Rail Regulator was a statutory office, created with effect from 1 December 1993 by section 1 of the Railways Act 1993, for the independent economic regulation of the British railway industry.

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Rail transport in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and previously consisted of Great Britain and the whole of Ireland.

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Railtrack

Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from 1994 until 2002.

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Railway electrification in Great Britain

Railway electrification in Great Britain began during the late 19th century.

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Railway electrification system

A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.

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Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a monthly business journal covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

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Railway infrastructure manager

This is a type of railway company, responsible for providing and maintaining railway infrastructure This includes mainly railway track and catenary, if the railway line is electrified, and respective command and control systems.

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Railways Act 1993

The Railways Act 1993 was introduced by John Major's Conservative government and passed on 5 November 1993.

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Railways Act 2005

The Railways Act 2005 (c 14) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning the regulatory structure for railways in the United Kingdom.

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Richard Brown (transport executive)

Richard Howard Brown CBE FCILT FRSA DL (born 23 February 1953) is a British transport executive.

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Richard Parry-Jones

Richard Parry-Jones FREng is former Group Vice-President-Global Product Development, Chief Technical Officer and Head of Global R&D Operations at Ford Motor Company.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Route Utilisation Strategy

Network Rail (NR) has an obligation, transferred from the abolished Strategic Rail Authority, to periodically produce Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) documents.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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ScotRail

ScotRail refers to a number of rail firms that have operated trains in Scotland under the ScotRail brand beginning in September 1983.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba; Scots Govrenment) is the executive of the devolved Scottish Parliament.

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Secretary of State for Transport

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport.

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Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera

Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera, PC (born 23 June 1962) is a British investment banker and politician.

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Slippery rail

Slippery rail or low railhead adhesion, is a condition of railways (railroads) where contamination of the railhead causes trains to experience less adhesion (grip).

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Solar panel

Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a source of energy to generate electricity.

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Solar power in the United Kingdom

Solar power represented a very small part of electricity production in United Kingdom until 2011.

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South West Trains

South West Trains (SWT) was an English train operating company owned by Stagecoach, which operated the South Western franchise between 1996 and 2017.

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Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway)

Southern is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) train operating company on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise in England.

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St Pancras railway station

St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business enterprise where the state has significant control through full, majority, or significant minority ownership.

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Statistics Commission

The Statistics Commission was a non-departmental public body established in June 2000 by the UK Government to oversee the work of the Office for National Statistics.

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Stephen Byers

Stephen John Byers (born 13 April 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tyneside from 1997 to 2010; in the previous parliament, from 1992, he represented Wallsend.

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Stirling railway station (Scotland)

Stirling railway station is a railway station located in Stirling, Scotland.

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Strategic Rail Authority

The Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom set up under the Transport Act 2000 to provide strategic direction for the railway industry.

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Thameslink Programme

The Thameslink Programme, originally Thameslink 2000, is a £6 billion project in south-east England to upgrade and expand the Thameslink rail network to provide new and longer trains between a wider range of stations to the north and to the south of London.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Train operating company

A train operating company (TOC) is a business operating passenger trains on the railway system of Great Britain under the collective National Rail brand.

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Transport Act 1947

The Transport Act 1947 (c. 49) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Transport Salaried Staffs' Association

The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) is a trade union for workers in the transport and travel industries in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Tyne and Wear Metro

The Tyne and Wear Metro, referred to locally as simply The Metro, is a rapid transit and light rail system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland in the Tyne and Wear region.

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UK Rail Leasing

UK Rail Leasing (UKRL) is an organisation based at Leicester Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD) offering locomotive leasing and rail vehicle engineering services.

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United Kingdom railway station categories

The 2,520 railway stations on the National Rail network in Great Britain are classified into six categories (two of which are each divided into two subcategories) by the Department for Transport.

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VolkerRail

VolkerRail is a specialist railway infrastructure services company based in Doncaster, England, providing services across the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Walsall

Walsall is an industrial town in the West Midlands of England.

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West Coast Main Line

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow.

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Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi or WiFi is technology for radio wireless local area networking of devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.

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Work train

A work train or departmental train (engineering train in the UK) is one or more rail cars intended for internal non-revenue use by the railroad's operator.

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2012 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2012 were announced on 31 December 2011 in The United Kingdom, New Zealand, (27 January 2012) 8 New Zealand Gazette 215.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail

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