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Licence exemptions A-D

All licence exemptions granted by us are on our public register. Electronic copies of current exemptions are available for download as Adobe Acrobat PDF files below.

Abbreviations for terms used describing licence exemptions listed in this section:

  • LMD: a light maintenance depot where services such as refuelling and cleaning trains takes place, and other frequent light maintenance work.
  • Heritage: the operation of low frequency, non-mainline passenger services and assets, usually on a preserved railway line.
  • Network: a railway line or combination of lines and installations. Licence exempt networks are usually functionally separate from the national network. Usually they will also be operated within a fenced or controlled access territory. This includes freight sidings or goods terminals.
  • Contractor: a rail maintenance company which undertakes track maintenance and repair, usually on behalf of Network Rail. Maintenance activities take place within engineering possessions using specialist or Rail Mounted Maintenance Vehicles (RMMVs).
  • Non-passenger trains: freight or maintenance trains. In the context of exemptions, this would include short distance, non-mainline shunting operations in specific areas.
Exemption title Description Date exemption came into force
A P Webb (Plant Hire) Limited Contractor 03 July 2009
Aberdeen Harbour Board Network 15 October 2009
Aggregate Industries UK Limited Non-passenger trains 12 November 2010
AHC (Warehousing) Limited (Terminal) Network 30 August 2000
Alfred McAlpine Capital Projects Limited (formerly McAlpine Capital Projects Limited) Contractor 26 April 2004
Amey Fleet Services Limited Contractor 16 September 2009
Amey OWR Limited (formerly Owen Williams Railways Limited) LMD 03 September 2002
Amey Rail Limited Contractor 14 September 2009
Aspin Foundations Limited Contractor 18 June 2009
Associated British Ports (Hams Hall) Network 03 June 2009
Associated British Ports Network 03 June 2009
Atkins Ltd Contractor 01 September 2011
Atkins Rail Limited (formerly WS Atkins Rail Limited) Contractor 10 July 1998
Avon Valley Railway Company Limited Heritage 22 April 2004
Avondale Environmental Services Limited Contractor 09 February 2005
Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group Heritage 16 May 2005
Balfour Beatty Rail Plant Limited (Light maintenance depot) LMD 06 February 2003
Balfour Beatty Rail Plant Limited (Light maintenance depot) LMD 28 June 2000
Balfour Beatty Rail Plant Limited (Light maintenance depot) LMD 01 December 2000
Bam Nuttall Limited (formerly Edmund Nuttall Limited) Contractor 12 March 2003
Barrow Hill Engine Shed Society Limited Network 01 October 1998
Birse Construction Limited Contractor 04 July 2000
Birse Rail Limited Contractor 12 February 2010
Blue Circle Industries Plc Network 01 June 2000
Bluebell Railway plc Heritage 11 June 2010
Blyth Harbour Commission Network 15 June 2006
The Bowes Railway Company Limited Heritage 01 March 1996
Bridgen (Rail) Maintenance Limited Contractor 04 July 2008
Bridgen (Rail) S & T Limited Contractor 04 July 2008
Bridgen (Rail) Welding Limited Contractor 04 July 2008
Bridgen Construction Limited Contractor 04 July 2008
Bridgen Holdings Limited Contractor 04 July 2008
Bridgeway Consulting Limited Contractor 06 June 2007
Bristol City Council (trading as Bristol Harbour Railway) Heritage 30 May 2007
Brush Barclay Ltd Non-passenger trains 14 December 2010
Cambrian Railways Society Limited LMD 05 August 2004
Cambrian Railways Trust Network 20 September 2005
Cambrian Transport Limited Network 26 August 2009
Carillion Construction Limited (Light maintenance depot) LMD 18 March 2005
Carillion JM Limited (formerly John Mowlem & Company plc) Contractor 28 June 2000
CAT-UK Services Limited Network 30 November 2010
Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway Company Limited Heritage 12 August 1994
Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway Company Limited Heritage 29 March 1996
The Cholsey & Wallingford Railway Preservation Society Heritage 14 December 1994
Churnet Valley Railway (1992) plc Heritage 27 March 1997
Cleartrack (Salcey-Evl) Limited Contractor 27 August 2009
Clough Smith Rail Limited Contractor 19 August 2009
Construction Marine Limited Contractor 27 September 2010
Corby Rail Services Limited Network 12 February 1999
Creative Logistics Limited Network 17 January 2001
Dart Valley Railway Limited Network 11 July 2006
Dartmoor Railway Limited Heritage 22 March 2004
DB Schenker (UK) Limited (formerly English Welsh & Scottish Railway Limited) LMD 08 September 2004
Dean & Dyball Construction Limited Contractor 24 August 2004
The Deeside Railway Company Limited Heritage 12 August 2008
Docklands Light Railway Limited Network 16 December 2008
Durham County Council trading as: The National Railway Museum at Shildon Network 04 September 2009

Last updated: 16 August 2011