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Libertarian Alliance: Why British Rail privatisation has failed Archived 5 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Worker's Liberty: British Rail privatisation: What it means and why it happened (2004) Economic Issues: Subsidy and productivity in the privatised British passenger railway; British Rail Sidetracked (1996)
British Rail was privatised between 1994 and 1997, involving the transfer to a series of private-sector operators of responsibility for the provision of services under contract. In all, more than 100 companies took over from British Rail .
Rail modal share (rail's share of total travel) 1952–2016 [5]. Since privatisation, the number of national rail journeys had increased by 128% in 2019–2020, [6] [7] and the number of passenger-km had increased by 126%, after a period of mostly decline during nationalisation. [8]
Now, 29 years later, one of the UK's largest rail operators will come to an end and services from Hampshire, Surrey, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire and Devon to London Waterloo will return to the ...
25 train operating companies (1996, operations contracted out as franchises) British Rail Research (1996) British Rail Telecommunications (1995) European Passenger Services (1996) Railtrack (1996) (18 October 2002 went into voluntary liquidation), now in public ownership as Network Rail; Red Star Parcels (1995) Union Railways (1996) British ...
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.
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Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail. After the Hatfield rail crash accident, the British government decided to intervene and in 2002 renationalised Railtrack (which was responsible for the maintenance of railway tracks and ...