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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 .
One man is holding a bar, while others are using rail tongs to position a rail. Photo published in 1917. This is a list of railway industry occupations, but it also includes transient functional job titles according to activity. [1]
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.
ScotRail (Scottish Government) SR Anglia Railways: Anglia GB Railways: 5 January 1997: 31 March 2004: One: AR Arriva Trains Wales: Wales & Borders: Arriva UK Trains: 8 December 2003: 13 October 2018 [8] KeolisAmey Wales: AW Arriva Trains Merseyside: Merseytravel contract: Merseyrail February 2000: 20 July 2003: Merseyrail: ME Arriva Trains ...
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
Transport for Wales (TfW; Welsh: Trafnidiaeth Cymru; TrC) is a not-for-profit company owned by the Welsh Government and managed at arms length by its appointed board. [3] TfW oversees the Transport for Wales Group (TfW Group) consisting of itself and its subsidiaries: Transport for Wales Rail, the train operator of the Wales & Borders railway franchise; Pullman Rail Limited; and TfW Innovation ...
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.
Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail. After the Hatfield rail crash accident, the British government decided to intervene and in 2002 renationalised Railtrack (which was responsible for the maintenance of railway tracks and ...