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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 .
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.
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 ...
This changed in 1986, when in a very different political climate, Foster Yeoman obtained the right to run its own trains onto the British Rail network if British Rail locomotive engineers were used. In 1997, the British Railways network was privatised as a single company Railtrack, which later became the non-profit company Network Rail ...
British Rail: 1974–97: From Integration to Privatisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926909-2. Body, Geoffrey (1981). Advanced Passenger Train: The official illustrated account of British Rail's revolutionary new 155mph train. Weston-super-Mare: Avon-Anglia Publications & Services. ISBN 0-905466-37-3. Williams, Hugh (1985).
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Overall, fare increases have been at a significantly slower rate than under British Rail (BR). [citation needed] [disputed – discuss] According to the Global Railway Review, the average annual real-terms increase between 1996 and 2011 was 1.3%, compared to 2.2% during the last 15 years of British Rail [12] [better source needed]. So far as ...