National Rail

This article is about the railway service in Great Britain from 1999 to present. For the former rail transport operator in Great Britain, see British Rail. For the Australian railway operator of the same name, see National Rail Corporation. For other organisations with similar names, see National Railways. For information about rail transport within Great Britain as a whole, see Rail transport in Great Britain.

National Rail
Product typePublic transport
OwnerRail Delivery Group
CountryUnited Kingdom
Introduced1999 (1999)
Related brands
MarketsUnited Kingdom
Websitewww.nationalrail.co.uk

National Rail (NR) is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, a group representing passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales.

The British Railways Board ran passenger services using the brand name British Rail from 1965 until 1997, when it was privatised and services were transferred to private train operating companies. (Northern Ireland, which is bordered by the Republic of Ireland, has a different system.)

National Rail services share a ticketing structure and inter-availability that generally do not extend to services which were not part of British Rail. The brand has a dedicated website (see below) referred to as nationalrail.co.uk. Its brand name used to be 'National Rail Enquiries' denoted by the nomenclature 'NRE'. While today it is more commonly referred to as 'National Rail' by news and media, it is still known by the initials 'NRE'.

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