Network Rail
Network Rail (2002- )
2002 Network Rail took over control by buying Railtrack, which was in "railway administration", from Railtrack Group plc for £500 million; Railtrack plc was then renamed and reconstituted as Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd. The purchase was completed on 3 October 2002. The former company had thus never ceased to exist but continued under another name: for this reason Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd was the defendant in later prosecutions in respect of events which had occurred in the days of Railtrack.
Network Rail owns the infrastructure, including the railway tracks, signals, overhead wires, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and most stations, but not the passenger or commercial freight rolling stock. It however owns a fleet of departmental stock.
Although it owns over 2,500 railway stations, it manages only 19 of the biggest and busiest of them, all the other stations being managed by one or other of the various train operating companies (TOCs)
Network Rail covers 20,000 miles of track, and 40,000 bridges and tunnels and more than 2,500 railway stations. The management and operation of most of the stations is carried out mainly by the principal train operating company serving that station although there are exceptions.
2007 Announced that the number of track renewal contractors will be reduced to four from the current six. These are now Amey/SECO, Balfour Beatty, Babcock First Engineering and Jarvis (since bust)
2015 Employ 35,000 persons.[1]
2015 July. Network Rail manage 20 stations directly and these are:
National
- Birmingham New Street
- Bristol Temple Meads
- Edinburgh Waverley
- Glasgow Central
- Leeds
- Liverpool Lime Street
- Reading
- Newcastle
- York
Central London Stations
- London Bridge
- London Cannon Street
- London Charing Cross
- London Euston
- London King's Cross
- London Liverpool Street
- London Paddington
- London St. Pancras International Low Level
- London Victoria
- London Waterloo
Central Manchester Stations
- Manchester Piccadilly
- Manchester Oxford Road (from 2016)
- Manchester Victoria (from 2015/16)
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