Railways Act 1993

Railways Act 1993

The Railways Act 1993 [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1993/ukpga_19930043_en_1] was introduced by John Major's Conservative government and passed on 5 November 1993. It provided for the restructuring of the British Railways Board (BRB), the public corporation that owned and operated the national railway system. A few residual responsibilities of the BRB remained with BRB (Residuary) Ltd.

Overview

The legislation enabled the Secretary of State for Transport to transfer separated parts of the railway to the private sector. He franchised passenger rail services to private companies including Virgin, Veolia Transportation and the coach companies Stagecoach and National Express, and floated the national railway track and signalling company Railtrack on the London stock exchange in 1996. He sold British Rail's track maintenance and renewal operations to private companies, with contracts to provide infrastructure services to Railtrack. He sold the three the rolling stock leasing companies or ROSCOs, owners of the passenger rolling stock, to management buyout teams.

Regulation

The legislation created a new regulatory regime for the railways, with the establishment of the Rail Regulator (dealing with the monopoly and dominant elements of the industry, principally Railtrack (now Network Rail)) and the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising, whose role was to sell passenger rail franchises to the private sector. The Director of Passenger Rail Franchising was replaced in 2001 by the Strategic Rail Authority. When the SRA was abolished in 2006 franchising were taken over by the Secretary of State for Transport. The statutory position of Rail Regulator was abolished in July 2004 and his functions were taken over by the Office of Rail Regulation.

Amendments

The legislation has been amended several times, most significantly by the Transport Act 2000, the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 and the Railways Act 2005.

Railtrack

Railtrack collapsed in highly controversial circumstances in October 2001, and in October 2002 the company emerged from railway administration, a special state of insolvency for railway companies created by the Railways Act 1993, as Network Rail. Some commentators regard the creation of Network Rail and its taking maintenance in-house as the beginning of the reversal of rail privatisation.

References

ee also

* Railways Act 1921
* Transport Act 1947


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