About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Rail vehicle manufacturers, Railway infrastructure companies, Alstom, Network Rail, ProRail, Siemens, Pullman Company, Adtranz, Railways of Slovak Republic - SR, Australian Rail Track Corporation, VolkerRail, Norwegian National Rail Administration, Bombardier Transportation, Railway Companies' Association, Canadian Vickers, List of tram builders, Knorr-Bremse, EBW, ONTRACK, Kinki Sharyo, Rail Corporation New South Wales, Safetran, Mafersa, VicTrack, MER MEC, Sprava elezni ni dopravni cesty, Infrabel, Union des Industries Ferroviaires Europeennes, Banedanmark, Westlock Interlocking, Swedish Transport Administration, Sersa Group, Reseau Ferre de France, NS Railinfratrust, DeltaRail Group, DB Netze, Stadler Rail, Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd, Swedish Rail Administration, DB Services, Adif, Railway interest, Invensys Rail Group, Finnish Transport Agency, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, WestNet Rail, PKP PLK, PCC l skie Linie Kolejowe, LORAM Maintenance of Way, Inc., Kinkisharyo-Mitsui, U.S. Rail News, Korea Rail Network Authority, Plasser American, Rawie. Excerpt: Network Rail is the government-created owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). It does not include the other UK state operator, Northern Ireland Railways. Network Rail is a British "not for dividend" entity, technically a private company limited by guarantee, whose principal asset is Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, a company limited by shares. Network Rail's main customers are the separate and mostly private-sector train operating companies (TOCs), responsible for passenger transport, and freight operating companies (FOCs), who provide train services on the infrastructure that the company owns and maintains. Network Rail does not itself run passenger or freight services; ultimately b...