Network SouthEast

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313001 at Watford Junction in the original form of the Network SouthEast livery on a peak hour working to London Broad Street Station shortly before the latter closed.

A train in modified NSE livery with rounded corners.

Two class 309 electric multiple units coupled together at London Liverpool Street Station. One of these is in Network SouthEast livery and the other is in Jaffa Cake livery, with a special "Essex Express" branding.

A Waterloo & City Line train in Network SouthEast livery.

Network SouthEast logo on a Waterloo & City Line train.

Network SouthEast (NSE) was a sector of British Rail that principally operated commuter trains in the London area and inter-urban services in the densely populated South-East of England. It was formed in 1986 when BR was sectorised (see British Rail brand names for a full history). In the privatisation of British Rail on 1st April 1994 it was broken into a number of franchises.

[edit] History

Before the sectorisation of BR in the 1980s the system was split into regions: those operating around London were London Midland Region (Marylebone, Euston, St Pancras and Broad Street), Southern Region (Waterloo, Victoria, Charing Cross, Holborn Viaduct, Cannon Street and London Bridge), Western Region (Paddington) and Eastern Region (King's Cross, Moorgate, Broad Street, Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street). This was perceived to be a source of inefficiency, so sectorisation reorganised everything into a single organisation covering commuter services. At the same time InterCity took over express services and Regional Railways took over regional services. On privatisation, NSE was split into various franchises and the Waterloo & City Line sold to London Underground for a nominal sum of one pound.

[edit] Network Railcard

Main article: Network Railcard

Although NSE no longer exists, the grouping of services that it defined before privatisation remain grouped by the Network Railcard [1], which can be bought for £20 and which offers a 34% discount for adults and 60% discount for accompanying children after 10:00 on weekdays and all day at weekends.

[edit] Subdivisions

NSE was broken down into various sub-divisions.

[edit] Privatisation

After privatisation, NSE was divided up into several franchises:

[edit] New trains

Network South East started a programme of replacing old rolling stock up to Privatisation

• Chiltern - British Rail Class 165
• Great Eastern - British Rail Class 321
• Great Northern - British Rail Class 365
• Island Line - British Rail Class 483 (Ex Underground stock built from 1938 - replaced older 1920's units)
• Kent Coast - British Rail Class 465, British Rail Class 466, British Rail Class 365
• North Downs - British Rail Class 165, British Rail Class 166
• Northampton Line - British Rail Class 321
• Solent and Wessex - British Rail Class 442
• South London Lines - British Rail Class 456
• Thames - British Rail Class 165, British Rail Class 166
• Thameslink British Rail Class 319
• Waterloo and City - British Rail Class 482
• West Anglia British Rail Class 317 and British Rail Class 322
• West of England British Rail Class 159

[edit] External links

• NSE Pages - Information and enthusiast website. - website is currently unavailable.