Abstract
Until the UK Government unveiled its rail privatisation proposals last year, Sweden had been the scene of Europe's most radical rail restructuring programme. In 1988, prompted by the growing deficits of their state railway (SJ), the Swedish parliament ordered the separation of rail infrastructure ownership from train operations, and opened up the system to private sector train operators through the introduction of competitive tendering for local rail service contracts. Superficially there are similarities to the current UK proposals for BR, but the Swedish model is underpinned by a much greater recognition of the economic, social and environmental role of rail transport. Deregulation has taken place within a tight framework of local government control and co-ordination of public transport, and the state railway has survived and prospered total privatisation was never part of the Swedish plan to transform the management and commercial performance of her railways.
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