Research Briefing
Railway: accidents
This note outlines the statutory framework for investigating accidents on the railway and provides information on five of the most serious accidents in the past fifteen years.
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Research Briefing
Railways: stations
This note gives information on who owns the country’s rail stations and is responsible for their maintenance; station accessibility and safety.
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Research Briefing
Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T)
Trans-European Networks (TENs) are infrastructure networks in transport, energy and telecommunications. This note is only concerned with the transport networks (TEN-T). It gives information on the background to the scheme, its financial aspects; the priority projects it supports; and the European Commission’s plans for reform.
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Research Briefing
Railways: rural and community lines
This note looks at the development of community rail under successive governments. It explains the purposes of rural rail, how it is structured, and proposals for its development.
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Research Briefing
Railways: Thameslink infrastructure project
This note describes the Thameslink infrastructure project, including information on how the scheme got off the ground, construction issues and the policy of successive government towards the project. It does not deal with the controversial Thameslink rolling project to purchase new trains to run on the route. This is covered in HC Library note SN3146. The re-let of the Thameslink passenger franchise is covered in SN1343.
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Research Briefing
Railways: level crossings
This note sets out the responsibilities of relevant bodies for the safety management of level crossings. It also gives information on government policy and regulation and some of the more notable accidents that have occurred on level crossings in recent years.
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Research Briefing
Railways: light rail schemes
This note looks at the policies of successive governments towards light rail and provides information about reports that have been published about the same over the past eight years.
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Research Briefing
London Underground after the PPP, 2007-
This note looks at the management of London Underground since 2007, covering the collapse of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) and the transfer of control of the Underground to Transport for London (TfL).
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Research Briefing
High Speed Two (HS2): the debate
HS2 is a £32 billion project to build a high speed rail line from London to Manchester and Leeds, via Birmingham to begin operation in 2026 and be completed in 2032.
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Research Briefing
Railways: Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1)
This note provides information on the financial arrangements for HS1 including the recent sale of London & Continental Railways.
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Research Briefing
Transport policy in 2011: a new direction?
This paper outlines the changes made to transport policy by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government and looks at some of the long term transport challenges the government is likely to face over the course of this Parliament.
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Research Briefing
Local transport governance and finance in England, 1997-2010
This standard note explains the structures and reform of local transport governance and finance in England during the course of the 1997-2010 Labour Government.
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Research Briefing
Transport Innovation Fund (TIF), 2005-2010
This note outlines what the Transport Innovation Fund (TIF) was, from its inception in 2005 to its demise in 2010.
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Research Briefing
Railways: Railtrack administration and the private shareholders, 2001-2005
This Note provides information about Railtrack and the Railway Administration Order Rules 2001. The last sections explain the position of the shareholders and the court case some of the private shareholders brought against the Government in July 2005.
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Research Briefing
Railways: Docklands Light Railway (DLR)
This note outlines the development of the Docklands Light Rail (DLR) system in East London and summarises the recent and planned expansion of the system.
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