Title: Arrangements between railroads - Wikipedia
Headings: Arrangements between railroads
Arrangements between railroads
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Operating
Leasing
Stock ownership
Consolidation
Trackage rights
Haulage agreement
Mine Gate
History
United Kingdom
Earliest railways
Canals
British Rail
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Content: This set the pattern for the next century or more. Canals
Canals were and still are operated like turnpikes, where the canal company was prohibited for anti-monopoly reasons, from operating boats on the canal. British Rail
After 1948 the majority of the United Kingdom railway network was nationalized as British Rail for both political and practical reasons. Internal industrial operations and some minor lines were excluded from the process. Where industrial lines met the railway network proper trains would be transferred from the industrial operator to British Rail control with non-British Rail locomotives and engineers never being permitted onto the British Rail network. Arrangements existed whereby non-British Rail operators could own rolling stock. This changed in 1986 when, in a very different political climate Foster Yeoman were able to obtain the right to run their own trains onto the British Rail network providing British Rail locomotive engineers were used. In 1997 the British Railways network was privatized as a single company Railtrack, and after this became a non-profit company Network Rail. Multiple companies hold rights to operate trains on the national network either as for-profit operators or government aided passenger franchises. A formal safety process exists for gaining access along with driver and equipment requirements as well as a pricing scheme.