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Statutory guidance and directions

Railways Closures Guidance

Guidance in relation to statutory procedures as set out in the Railways Act 2005.

Directions and guidance to the SRA on negotiating a funding and outputs package

Directions and guidance to the SRA on negotiating a funding and outputs package.

Directions and Guidance to the Strategic Rail Authority 2004

New Directions and Guidance to provide the Strategic Rail Authority with a clear legal framework for its changing role during the period before the legislation proposed in the White Paper The Future of Rail comes into force.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Network Rail interim funding - Medium Term Note (MTN) programme

Letter from the Minister of State directing SRA to enter into agreements providing support to Network Rail's Medium Term Note programme.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Directions and guidance to the Strategic Rail Authority

The Authority is to provide leadership for the rail industry and ensure that the industry works co-operatively towards common goals. This objective should underpin the whole range of the Authority's activities. The Authority will set priorities for the successful operation and development of the railway. It will work with other industry parties to secure continuing private investment in the railway, and to deploy public funding to best effect.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Statutory guidance to the Rail Regulator

Includes background information and the regulators responsibilities.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Responses to the consultation on the Directions and Guidance to the SRA

Railways Bill 1999 - Regulatory, environmental and equal treatment appraisals.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Directions and Guidance Section 206(3) and Section 207(5) Transport Act 2000

Directions and Guidance Section 206(3) and Section 207(5) Transport Act 2000 - Greater Anglia.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Strategic Rail Authority

Directions and guidance relating to the functions of the Authority transferred to it from the British Railways Board.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Exemption from requirement for licence when acting as "operator of last resort"

Directions and guidance to the Strategic Rail Authority.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Interim directions and guidance to the SRA

Interim directions and guidance to the SRA.

Published:: 30 January 2006

Declaration under Article 42(1) Convention of International Rail Carriage 1999

Declaration on behalf of the UK under Article 42(1) of the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980 (in the version of the Protocol of Modification of 3 June 1999).

Published:: 25 July 2006

Guidance on the Convention on International Carriage by Rail Regulations 2005

Guidance on the Railways (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) Regulations 2005 which implement a new, 1999, version of the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF 1999) into UK law.