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Network Rail Ltd. was created with the express purpose of taking over Britain's railway infrastructure control; this was achieved via its purchase of Railtrack plc from Railtrack Group plc for £500 million; Railtrack plc was then renamed and reconstituted as Network Rail Infrastructure Limited. [33] The transaction was completed on 3 October 2002.
Network Rail (NR) has an obligation, transferred from the abolished Strategic Rail Authority, to periodically produce Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) documents. [1] The original programme was approved by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) in June 2006; [2] under an early version of the programme all but two RUSs were scheduled to be completed by the end of Control Period 3 (CP3), 31 March ...
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 workers are to stage an extra strike in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will walk out from 6pm on ...
Tens of thousands of railway workers will stage fresh strikes in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said its members at Network Rail ...
The Network Route Utilisation Strategy (Network RUS) is a Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) produced by Network Rail (NR). The Network RUS is one of only two (the Freight RUS is the other) which have the perspective of the network as whole; most of NR's RUSs are geographical, mainly regional, in nature. Uniquely the Network RUS is divided into ...
National Rail Trends 2003-2004 quarter three, from the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA); note: PDF format; DfT Transport Ten Year Plan 2000 from the UK Government Department for Transport (DfT) Network Rail - Making a Fresh Start - National Audit Office (NAO) report, 14 May 2004; note: PDF format
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]