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'''Network Rail Limited of the intergalactic empire of great britain''' is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and [[Railway infrastructure manager|infrastructure manager]] of most of the railway network in [[Great Britain]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/ |title=Network Rail |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107014125/http://www.networkrail.co.uk/ |archivedate=7 November 2007 |accessdate=25 May 2009 }}</ref> Network Rail is an [[non-departmental public body|"arm's length" public body]] of the [[Department for Transport]] with no shareholders, which reinvests its income in the railways.
 
Network Rail's main customers are the private [[train operating company|train operating companies]] (TOCs), responsible for passenger transport, and [[freight operating company|freight operating companies]] (FOCs), who provide train services on the infrastructure that the company owns and maintains. Since 1 September 2014, Network Rail has been classified as a "public sector body".<ref name="The Guardian - Network Rail joins the public sector">{{cite news |last=Topham |first=Gwyn |title=Network Rail joins the public sector: but don't call it 'nationalisation' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/aug/28/network-rail-piublic-sector-dont-call-it-nationalisation |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 June 2019 |ref=guardianpublicsector |date=28 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="Network Rail management and funding">{{cite web |title=How we're governed and managed |url=https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/how-we-work/how-were-governed-and-managed/ |website=Network Rail}}</ref>