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Railway Operator

Railway Operator: A term, a timetable and a target. A passenger railway is not a business you own. It is a term of years, a timetable you bid for, a fleet you…

A term, a timetable and a target. Run somebody else's railway, to somebody else's clock.

A passenger railway is not a business you own. It is a term of years, a timetable you bid for, a fleet you lease and a punctuality target somebody else wrote. Your fares are mostly regulated, your track access charges are fixed by contract, and your costs move whether or not your revenue does. The whole thing rests on trains arriving when the plan says, because that is the number the department reads before it reads anything else.

Setup costs
£8,000,000 to £40,000,000
Competition
Low
Category
Transport & Logistics

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