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British Railways Board Network SouthEast
British Railways Board
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British Railways Board Network SouthEast
former BR business
was replaced by
British Railways Board TOUs >
start date
1986
end date
1997
owned by
British Railways Board
legal title
description
Network SouthEast was one of three British Rail passenger business sectors. From 1982 it had been known as London and South East, but the new brand and corporate identity was launched in June 1986.
In the early 1980s commercial control was transferred from the Regions to the new sectors, and one of these was London and South East, although the Regions continued to exist as train operators and managers of the infrastructure until the end of the decade.
New corporate identities were designed for all the businesses, including freight and parcels. The Network SouthEast design included ‘rhomboids’ but also sometimes used the British Rail double arrows logo.
At the end of the 1980s the Regions were abolished, with their remaining responsibilities being transferred to the businesses. All routes were allocated to one of the businesses, but some trains ran on the lines of another sector for part of their journeys.
As privatisation approached, the British Railways Board was instructed to set up ‘train operating units’ which would then be offered to the private sector as franchises.
Eleven TOUs (Chiltern Lines, Great Eastern, Isle of Wight, LTS Rail, Network SouthCentral, North London Railways, South Eastern, South West Trains, Thameslink, Thames Trains and West Anglia Great Northern) were created from the NSE business.
Some of these names survived when the TOUs had been replaced by franchises in 1996 and 1997. Chiltern Lines, for example, became Chiltern Railways.
service area
British Railways Board commuter and other regional and local services, mainly in south east England but also to Exeter via Salisbury and parts of East Anglia
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