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ORR was established as the Office of Rail Regulation on 5 July 2004 by the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003, replacing the Rail Regulator. It became the Office of Rail and Road on 1 April 2015 following ORR's appointment as Monitor for National Highways under the Infrastructure Act 2015 .
Train drivers are now amongst the highest-paid associate professional (as defined by UK government) workers in the UK. [ citation needed ] ASLEF aims to increase basic pay so the "overtime culture" is reduced or eliminated, in the hope that more jobs will be created to cover the work that is not covered by overtime.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was a furlough scheme announced by Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 20 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. [1] The scheme was announced as providing grants to employers to pay 80% of a staff wage and employment costs each month, up to a total of £2,500 per ...
Certain fares (about 40%) are regulated by the government. This includes Season tickets on most commuter journeys, some Off-Peak return tickets on long distance journeys and Anytime tickets around major cities. The government uses July's Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation to determine the increase in the price of these fares. [3]
The reason given is: According to army.mod.uk and BFBS the British Army soldier (other rank) training was overhauled in 2024 and replaced with the "Soldier Academy" syllabus. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Last update: 2023 (January 2025)
[2] [3] In addition to its representation of ordinary passengers, on whose behalf it campaigns for improvements to rail services, it undertakes research for the purpose of lobbying political parties towards the ends of reintroducing a vertically-integrated, publicly owned and operated British railway network. It has over 150,000 supporters UK ...
www.southeasternrailway.co.uk Route map SE Trains Limited , [ 4 ] trading as Southeastern , is a British train operating company owned by DfT Operator for the Department for Transport , [ 5 ] that took over operating the South Eastern franchise in South East England from privately owned London & South Eastern Railway (which also traded as ...
Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom. [2]TfL is the successor organization of the London Passenger Transport Board, which was established in 1933, and several other bodies in the intervening years.