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In response to the trend for intermodal container heights to increase from 8 feet 6 inches to the "high cube" standard of 9 feet 6 inches, [18] the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) funded gauge clearance work, completed in November 2004, to allow 9'6" (2.9m) high containers to be carried on standard freight wagons on the F2N route and beyond. [19]
The Shadow SRA was established in 1999 following the election of the Labour government in 1997 in an attempt to increase public interest regulation of the fragmented railway network following the privatisation of British Rail. [2] It incorporated the former Conservative government's Director of Passenger Rail Franchising. Its main function was ...
Network Rail pleaded guilty and were fined £4.1 million including legal costs. [109] [110] In December 2005, two young girls were killed by a train as they were crossing the railway line via a pedestrian level crossing at Elsenham in Essex. Network Rail was prosecuted for breaching health and safety law and fined £1 million in March 2012. The ...
Gatwick Express, the third railway service to be franchised in 1996. Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain is the system of contracting the operation of the passenger services on the railways of Great Britain to private companies, which has been in effect since 1996 and was greatly altered in 2020, with rail franchising being effectively abolished in May 2021.
During the final parliamentary stages of the passage of the Railways Act 2005, the government sustained a defeat in the House of Lords over an amendment which would have protected passenger and train operators against a diminution of infrastructure quality or performance – or being held rigidly to their contracts for the provision of railway services which assumed no such diminution - if the ...
Network Rail took photographs of people passing through ticket barriers as part of a trial launched in 2022, according to documents obtained by civil liberties group Big Brother Watch.
Get the pass for $299, $100 off. Amtrak has a deal on its USA Rail Pass through March 29. Amtrak Rail Pass offers 10 trips for $399 with passes available through March 29
The government has moved towards allowing more competition on the intercity network through open access operators. In 2015 it approved a service run by Alliance Rail Holdings to operate between London Euston and Blackpool, and in 2016 it allowed FirstGroup to run open access services on the East Coast Main Line from October 2021 under the operating name Lumo.