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Licence exemptions E-K

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
East Lancashire Light Railway Company Limited Heritage 29 August 2003
Eden Valley Railway Company Limited Heritage 07 April 2006
Electro-Motive Services International Limited LMD 22 August 2008
The Elsecar Steam Railway Heritage 26 April 2004
Epping Ongar Railway Holdings Limited Heritage 28 February 2001
Fastline Limited (formerly Jarvis Fastline Limited) LMD 07 February 2003
The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company Non-passenger trains 29 October 2010
The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company Network 23 November 2010
Forest of Dean Railway Limited Heritage 02 June 1995
Freightliner Limited (Light maintenance depot - Wentloog) LMD 18 February 2002
Freightliner Limited (Light maintenance depot) LMD 10 December 1999
Freightliner Limited (Light maintenance depot) LMD 29 January 1998
Freightliner Maintenance Limited LMD 19 October 2007
Freightliner Railports Limited (Doncaster International Railport) Network 25 March 2008
GB Railfreight Limited LMD 14 January 2011
GBL & Sons Limited Contractor 30 July 2009
Geoffrey Osborne Limited Contractor 27 May 1999
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway plc Heritage 18 May 2010
Great Central Railway (Nottingham) Limited Heritage 15 March 2001
Great Central Railway (Nottingham) Limited Heritage 16 June 1995
Great Northern & East Lincolnshire Railway plc Heritage 11 May 1998
Guardian Industries UK Limited Network 17 October 2003
Gwili Railway Company Limited Heritage 22 June 2007
Helston Railway Preservation Company Ltd Heritage 12 May 2011
Homegrown Timber (Rail) Limited Contractor 21 July 2009
Imerys Minerals Limited Non-passenger trains 14 December 2010
J Murphy & Sons Limited Contractor 22 October 1999
Jarvis Rail Limited (formerly Northern Infrastructure Maintenance Company Limited) (in administration) LMD 04 February 1996
Jerich (UK) Network 28 September 2005
John G. Russell (Transport) Limited Network 22 April 2009
John G. Russell (Transport) Limited Non-passenger trains 06 January 2011
Keith & Dufftown Railway Association Heritage 14 September 2000
Keltbray Limited Contractor 27 September 2010
The Kent and East Sussex Railway Company (formerly Tenterden Railway Company Limited) Heritage 02 November 2000
Kier Construction Limited Network 23 May 2005
Kilbride Properties (Swindon) Limited (Railway Goods Terminals) Network 13 February 2008

Last updated: 06 February 2012