• Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure...
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    Queensland Rail refers to the network by two different names, either as the 'South East Queensland (SEQ) network' or the 'Citytrain network'. Rail services...
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  • services which were not part of British Rail. National Rail should not be confused with Network Rail. National Rail is a brand used to promote passenger...
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  • This list of countries by rail transport network size based on length of rail lines. For the purposes of this page, railway has been defined as a fixed...
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  • most substantial changes were made. Seeking to reduce rail subsidies, one-third of the network and over half of all stations were permanently closed under...
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    Melbourne rail network is a metropolitan suburban and freight rail system serving the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The metropolitan rail network is...
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    era of rapid expansion. Most of the track is managed by Network Rail, which in 2017 had a network of 9,824 miles (15,811 km) of standard-gauge lines, of...
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  • and economic development. The Community Rail Network (CRN), formerly known as the Association of Community Rail Partnerships (ACoRP), supports its fifty...
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    and was replaced by Network Rail. The aftermath of the accident saw widespread speed limit reductions throughout the rail network and a tightening of...
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  • the Rail Delivery Group, including procuring services and setting fares. In addition, it is to absorb Network Rail to become the operator of most rail infrastructure...
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  • railways, and the economic monitoring of National Highways. ORR regulates Network Rail by setting its activities and funding requirements for each Control Period...
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  • The Levenmouth rail link (also called the Leven rail link) is a recently reopened 5 miles (8 km) branch line railway in Fife, Scotland. The link connects...
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    High-speed rail in the United Kingdom is provided on five upgraded railway lines running at top speeds of 125 mph (200 km/h) and one purpose-built high-speed...
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    have been scrapped. The Southern Railway's expanding third rail electric passenger network (which had begun as far back as 1915) was until 1941 a purely...
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    September 2023[update], InterCity 125s remain in service with ScotRail, Great Western Railway, and Network Rail. The design became the basis for an Australian variant...
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  • Trans-European Rail network is made up of the Trans-European high-speed rail network as well as the Trans-European conventional rail network. The rail network is...
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    Sydney light rail network (or Sydney Light Rail) is a light rail/tram system serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The network currently...
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    remaining six Class 57/3s from the national railway infrastructure owner Network Rail. In June 2023, six were returned to Porterbrook with five moving to GB...
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    Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel...
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    222 units on EMR's intercity routes. In July 2012, it was announced by Network Rail that the Midland Main Line (MML) would be electrified north of Bedford...
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    sub-contracted to Network Rail (High Speed) Ltd (formerly known as Network Rail (CTRL) acting as the controller and infrastructure manager. Network Rail (CTRL) Limited...
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    D6700–D6999. The Class 37 became a familiar sight on many parts of the British Rail network, in particular forming the main motive power for InterCity services in...
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    The Class 313 units were the oldest EMUs operating on the National Rail network in Great Britain prior to their withdrawal in 2023, having entered service...
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    A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through...
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    Network SouthEast (NSE) was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail created in 1982. NSE mainly operated commuter rail trains within Greater...
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  • The Majorca rail network consists of three separate electrified lines, which radiate north and east from Palma de Mallorca, the major city on the Spanish...
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    (521 m). The bridge and its associated railway infrastructure are owned by Network Rail. Before the construction of the bridge, ferries were used to cross the...
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  • Network Rail Control Periods are the 5-year timespans into which Network Rail, the owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain...
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    overhead wires or 750 V DC from third rail. 115 trainsets were built between 2014 and 2018, for use on the Thameslink network, as part of the Thameslink Programme...
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  • collapse of Railtrack, which saw its assets passed to the state-owned Network Rail (NR), while track maintenance was also brought in-house under NR in 2004...
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