Overview

The key stakeholders for network rail are:

• Department of Transport
  • Determines the level of public expenditure for the railway in England and Wales
  • Defines the strategy for the railway in England and Wales
• Transport Scotland
  • Determines the level of public expenditure for the railway in Scotland
  • Defines the strategy for the railway in Scotland
• The Office of Rail Regulation
  • Independent economic and safety regulator
  • Ensures no monopoly in NR's position.
  • Has a level of accountability to parliament
• Her Majesty's Rail Inspectorate
  • Part of the ORR and deals with comliance and safety
• Train and Freight Operating Companies
  • The companies who run trains on NR's infrastructure
• Passenger and Freight Customers
  • The travelling public
  • Customers of the FOCs (such as powers stations who need coal)
• Passenger Focus
  • Independent national rail consumer watchdog.
  • Mission is to get the best deal for the consumer for Britain's rail passengers.

This is diagramatically below in figure 1 (click on link for full picture)

Figure 1 - Key stakeholders

Figure 1 below shows the breakdown graphically.

Network Rail's organisational structure is split into a 6 geographical teritories which are then further split into 16 areas. Each territory has 1 Territory Maintenance Director (TMD) and each area has 1 Infrastructure Maintenance Manager (IMM).

Currently (as of 4th Dec 2007) the territory and personnel split is: