Nortish Railways

The Board of Railways, or The Lords and Gentlemen Counsellours of the Committee of His Majesty’s Privy Council appointed for the administration and consideration of all matters regarding the Railways, is properly a sub-committee of the Board of Trade, a committee itself of the Privy Council of Great Nortend. The Board has oversight over and management of the public railway network in Great Nortend and was established by

Organisation

The Board was established as a committee of the Privy Council by an Order in Council in 1920 to superintend and effect the provisions of the Railways Act. It has had mostly an independent existence, quite separate from the Board of Trade, and operates effectively as its own ministry under the Master of the Board of Railways, presently the Rt. Hon. Sir William Gouldon, Second Lord of Trade.

Operations

The Board does not directly operate or maintain any railway services in Great Nortend. Rather, nine separate and independent corporations operate railways in accordance with the Railways Act and the provisions in their respective corporation statutes. Broadly speaking, all land used by the railways are held in demesne of the Crown, and railway companies merely have possessory interest thereover. Each company operates and controls its own locomotives, its own carriage stock, its own goods stock and its own staff, and is entitled to their profits.

Companies

There are nine railway operating companies, excluding purely suburban and metropolitan services such as the Faunslaughter Railway. These are:

• City Counties Railway (CC)
• Eastern Railway (ER)
• Gardolian Railway (GR)
• Great Central Midston Railway (GCMR)
• Great North and Midston Railway (GNMR)
• Great North West Railway (GNWR)
• Great Southern Railway (GSR)
• Hambrian Railway (HR)
• Rhise and Fisharbour Railway (RFR)