The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Passenger Railway Services) Regulations 2023

Minimum service levels: category A services

4.—(1) The level of service for the purposes of enabling work notices under section 234C of the 1992 Act to be given in relation to strikes as respects category A services, is the provision of the train operation services necessary to operate the equivalent of 40% of the timetabled services during the strike.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation a service is a timetabled service in relation to a person providing category A services if it is a service to be provided by that person which is specified in the National Rail Timetable as operating during the strike period, where a network or station is available to operate such a service.

(3) In paragraph (2)—

“National Rail Timetable” means the publication of that name most recently published by Network Rail relevant to the date of the strike(1);

“service specified in the National Rail Timetable” means each origin station to destination station train journey listed in the National Rail Timetable;

“network” has the meaning given by section 83(1) of the 1993 Act.

(4) In this regulation—

“Network Rail” means Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, company registration number 02904587 whose registered address is Waterloo General Office, London, United Kingdom, SE1 8SW, and includes any successor in function to Network Rail which publishes the National Rail Timetable;

“train” has the meaning that it has for the purposes of regulation 2.

(1)

The National Rail Timetable is accessible at https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/the-timetable/electronic-national-rail-timetable/