Network SouthEast (NSE) was a sector of British Rail that principally operated commuter trains in the London area, formed in 1986 when BR was sectorised. It was privitised in the 1990s, and broken into a number of franchises.

Contents

1 History 2 Subdivisions 3 Privatisation 4 External Links

History

Previous to the sectorisation of BR in the 1980s, the system had been split into regions with the regions around London being; London Midland Region (Euston and St Pancras), Southern Region (Waterloo and Victoria), the Western Region (Paddington) and the Eastern Region/North Eastern Region??? (Kings X and whatsit). This was a source of innefficiency so sectorisation reorganised everything with a single covering commuter services. At the same time InterCity took over express services and Regional Railways took over regional services, with similar divisions in freight organisation. On privitisation, NSE was split into various franchises.

Subdivisions

NSE was broken down into various sub-divisions.

Subdivision	Main Route(s)	Route Description
Chiltern	Chiltern Main Line	London Marylebone-Aylesbury/Birmingham Snow Hill
Great Eastern	Great Eastern Main Line	London Liverpool Street-Ipswich/Harwich/Clacton/Southend
Great Nothern	East Coast Main Line	London King's Cross-Peterborough/Cambridge
Island Line	Island Line	Ryde-Shanklin
Kent Coast	Chatham Main Line, Hastings Line, Sheerness Line	London Victoria/Charing Cross-Margate/Dover/Folkestone/Ashford/Hastings
London, Tilbury and Southend	LTS Line	London Fenchurch Street-Tilbury-Southend-Shoeburyness
North Downs	North Downs Line	Reading-Guildford-Gatwick Airport-Tonbridge
Northampton Line	West Coast Main Line, Marston Vale Line, North London Line	London Euston-Watford-Milton Keynes-Northampton-Birmingham, Bedford-Bletchley
Solent and Wessex	Portsmouth Direct Line, South Western Main Line	London Waterloo-Guildford-Portsmouth, London Waterloo-Basingstoke-Southampton-Bournemouth-Weymouth
South London Line	Oxted Line, Sutton & Mole Valley Lines	London Victoria-East Grinstead/Uckfield/Dorking
South Western Line		London Waterloo-Alton/Reading/Windsor/Guildford
Sussex Coast	Brighton Main Line, Arun Valley Line, East Coastway Line, West Coastway Line	London Victoria/London Bridge-Gatwick Airport-Brighton/Eastbounre/Littlehampton, Brighton-Hastings, Brighton-Portmouth-Southampton
Thames Turbo	Great Western Main Line, Cotswold Line	London Paddington-Slough-Reading-Oxford-Worcester/Stratford
Thameslink	Thameslink	Bedford-Luton-London-Gatwick Airport-Brighton
West Anglia	Lea Valley Line	London Liverpool Street-Harlow-Cambridge-King's Lynn, London Liverpool Street-Stansted Airport
West of England	West of England Main Line	London Waterloo-Baskingstoke-Salisbury-Exeter

Privatisation

After privatisation, NSE was divided up into several franchises:

• c2c - previously LTS Rail.

London, Tilbury and Southend Line

• Chiltern Railways

Chiltern

• First Great Eastern - previously Great Eastern. Now part of the One Railway franchise.

Great Eastern

• First Great Western Link - previously Thames Trains.

North Downs

Thames Turbo

• Island Line

Island Line

• Silverlink - previously North London Railways.

Northampton Line

• South Eastern Trains - previously Connex South Eastern. Connex lost the franchise due to poor reliability and financial problems.

Kent Coast

• Southern - previously South Central Trains and before that Connex South Central.

South London Line

Sussex Coast

• Thameslink

Thameslink

• West Anglia Great Northern - now divided into Great Northern and West Anglia, of which the latter is part of the One Railway franchise.

Great Northern

West Anglia

• South West Trains

Solent & Wessex

South Western Line

West of England Line

External Links

• NSE Pages - Information and enthusiast website.