the power and the freedom he believed he should have had. In relation to powers to hold Railtrack - the national railway infrastructure company - to account, Morton's jurisdictional skirmishes with the Rail Regulator became public after the Ladbroke Grove rail crash and Morton would never accept that the Rail Regulator and not the SRA had the right to determine what Railtrack's financial framework and settlement should be. He summed up his objections in what became his second most memorable railway phrase - 'He who pays the piper should call the tune' - by which he meant that the SRA should set the overall level of public spending on the railways, and what was to be delivered with the cash, and the Rail Regulator should simply check that the money was efficiently used. That never happened during his tenure at the SRA, although it became reality in 2005 with the passage of the Railways Act 2005 which curtailed the power of the Office of Rail Regulation (which replaced the Rail Regulator in July 2004) in financial matters. Morton resigned in October 2001. Private life In 1990, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Bath. Morton was knighted in 1992. Later life He was chairman of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 1994–2004. He died on 1 September 2004 aged 66. References External links Obituary, The Economist Obituary, The Guardian Obituary, The Daily Telegraph 1938 births 2004 deaths Knights Bachelor Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford British Rail people Alumni of St John's College (Johannesburg) Businesspeople awarded knighthoods Channel Tunnel