Network Rail - Power

[surveyor]

Currently sat at home with a power cut while the level crossing next door is still operational, do NR have a redundancy somewhere?

Also…. Who pays the power bill for an electric train? The operator?, Network Rail etc…

Curious more than anything..

[adsvx220]

Network rail have there own HV supply. Not sure who pays the bill as railways go through multiple power networks. Great Western f network for example goes through a large section of SSE power network. So National grid supply power to a sse sub station which will then supply power to a railway mini sub which will then supply direct to the railway overheads.

Your house is similar but has an LV supply coming off of a HV supply from a mini sub somewhere. Usually a power cut is local and will only effect a few properties.

[nc107]

The operator pays to NR. There are different charges for different types and regions - its called EC4T.

All available on line if interested here

[BrettMRC]

Wonder how crippling the PF correction cost is on the electric bill?

[e30ftw]

The level crossing was probably acting on battery back up, for just such occasions so it doesn’t close the road.

[Stedman]

Touching on it slightly, the Southern fleet chuck back roughly 10% of what they use back into the network.

[Stedman]

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