Railtrack

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Railtrack was the former private owner and operator of most of Britain’s railway infrastructure, which was later replaced by the publicly owned Network Rail after financial and safety controversies.


Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct company
holding company
rail infrastructure company
assetsTransferredTo Network Rail
associatedWith Hatfield rail crash
Ladbroke Grove rail crash
beganOperations 1994
businessModel regulated monopoly
ceasedOperations 2002
country United Kingdom
criticisedFor poor maintenance
safety management failures
underinvestment in infrastructure
dateOfAdministration 2001
dateOfIncorporation 1994
dissolved 2002
enteredStatus railway administration
excludedRegion Northern Ireland
faced financial difficulties
safety controversies
formedFrom British Rail infrastructure business
headquartersLocation London, England
surface form: "London"
industryRegime post-privatisation British rail system
legalForm public limited company
listedOn London Stock Exchange
notableFor collapse leading to renationalisation of rail infrastructure
operatedInSector rail transport
ownedInfrastructureIn Great Britain
ownership private company
publicly owned company
parentCompany Railtrack
surface form: "Railtrack Group"
placedIntoAdministrationBy UK government
predecessorOf Network Rail
privatisationContext privatisation of British Rail
regulator Office of Rail and Road
surface form: "Office of the Rail Regulator"
replacedBy not-for-dividend company model
responsibleFor level crossings
railway bridges
railway stations infrastructure
railway tracks
railway tunnels
signalling systems
role operator of railway infrastructure
owner of railway infrastructure
stockMarketStatus publicly listed company
successorOf Railtrack
tookOverFrom British Rail

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

TPWS developedFor Railtrack
British Rail introducedBrand Railtrack
surface form: "Railtrack (as infrastructure successor setup)"
Railtrack parentCompany Railtrack
surface form: "Railtrack Group"
Network Rail predecessor Railtrack
British Rail successor Railtrack
Railtrack successorOf Railtrack

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