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As a public sector arm’s length body, Network Rail retains the commercial and operational freedom to manage Britain’s railway infrastructure in England, Wales and Scotland within regulatory and control frameworks. As a not-for-dividend organisation, we don’t pay out dividends to shareholders.
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In 2014, Network Rail was reclassified as an arm’s length central government body, retaining responsibility for the ownership and stewardship of its network. It is accountable to its customers and funded through a mixture of access revenue, paid to it by the train operating companies, and received money from the government grants. Network Rail oper...
operating the network;managing performance;directing service recovery;setting timetables;The nature of Network Rail's activities require it to have systems in place to ensure the health and safety of its employees and all others affected by its activities. Its Health and Safety Management System establishes the framework and arrangements in place to deliver its objectives, providing for a thorough understanding of all health and safety...
You should contact Network Rail's national customer helpline (08457 114 141). Alternatively you can contact them through the Network Rail website(link is external).
Network Rail owns, operates and develops Britain’s railway infrastructure. That’s 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations. We manage 20 of the UK’s largest stations while all the others, over 2,500, are managed by the country’s train operating companies.
As a public sector arm’s length body of the Department for Transport, we retain the commercial and operational freedom to manage Britain’s railway infrastructure in England, Wales and Scotland within regulatory and control frameworks.
Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. [5]
Network Rail owns, operates, maintains and develops Britain’s railway. Network Rail is responsible for ensuring that the railway is safe and reliable.
Nov 18, 2021 · The biggest ever public investment in Britain’s rail network is announced by the government today (18 November 2021), with £96 billion to deliver faster and better journeys to more people...
