These ‘network benefits’ are no accident, but the result of a regulatory framework that was put in place at privatization. ![]() And national railcards for young people, older people and people with disabilities continue to exist and are accepted by all train operators. Tickets can normally be used on trains run by any operator over the route for which it is valid, even on trains run by ‘open access’ operators such as Hull Trains who have no franchise agreement with the government's Strategic Rail Authority (SRA). You can turn up at any station and buy a through ticket to just about any other station on the network, even if that journey involves several changes of train and several different operators. Prospective passengers can pick up the phone and dial a single, memorable 24-hour number to find out about train times and fares for any journey in the UK. But in spite of the number of individual companies involved, the British railway system remains an effective, coherent, national network. Passenger services on Britain's railway, once run by a single nationalized organization, are now provided by a combination of 26 privatized passenger train operating companies (TOCs) owned by almost a dozen different parent companies. 38 (pp.41–49)įares and Fares Regulation on Britain's Railways Fares and Fares Regulation on Britain's Railways Japan Railway & Transport Review No.
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