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Northern Rail Serco-Abellio: 12 December 2004: 31 March 2016: Arriva Rail North: NT Northern Spirit: Regional Railways North East MTL: 2 March 1997: February 2000: Arriva Trains Northern: NS North Western Trains: North West Regional Railways Great Western Holdings: 2 March 1997: March 1998: First North Western: NW ScotRail: ScotRail National ...
British Railways: From 1948 to 1994 the 'mainline' railway network was in the hands of the single nationalised operator, British Railways (later promoted as British Rail). Post-privatisation companies: From 1994, a number of privately owned companies have operated and maintained 'mainline' railway track and trains.
After extensive privatisation of the public sector during the Margaret Thatcher administration, there remain few statutory corporations in the UK. Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail.
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.
The trainload business represented approximately 80% of British Rail's total revenue from freight, [2] and 90% of freight traffic by mass. [3] Trainload Freight was the only consistently profitable freight sector within British Rail. [4] [5] In 1988, the company was authorised to acquire 100 Class 60 locomotives, at a cost of approximately £ ...
The Rail Delivery Group is the coordinating body of the train operating companies in Great Britain and owns the National Rail brand, which uses the former British Rail double-arrow logo and organises the common ticketing structure. Many of the train operating companies are in fact parts of larger companies which operate multiple franchises.
List of British Rail power classifications; List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes; List of railway museums in the United Kingdom; British railway rolling stock; List of British railway-owned locomotive builders; List of British Rail TOPS depot codes; List of British Railways shed codes; List of British Railways steam locomotives as of ...
This category contains articles about British railway companies established before 1860. A number of very early British railway companies were short-lived. Many were amalgamated into larger organisations, which were themselves grouped into the 'Big Four' in 1923 (see List of railway companies involved in the 1923 grouping ).