On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 21:51 +0000, Gareth L wrote: > When you’re on the tube and it’s stopping at a mainline station, it > tends to say “change here for National rail services”. Elsewhere I > often hear it referred to as the national rail network and conversely > London Underground network for tube lines. Though the overground > might complicates things. > I think it’s “National rail” as a descriptive term rather than a > brand/company term. > > Network rail is just the company/government backed company/government > entity (delete as appropriate) that maintains the tracks. Feels weird > to call it the network rail network when it’d not be called the > railtrack network 20 years ago. > > Also you have engineer line references (ELRs) for the track at > least.. I’ve never heard them used for the actual station > building/platforms. > National Rail is the network under which the Train Operating Companies operate. Network Rail is the company that operate the track infrastructure.
The name National Rail was in use in Railtrack days. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
