Strategic Rail Authority

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Strategic Rail Authority

Company type	non-departmental public body
Industry	Railway transport
Founded	2001
Defunct	2006
Fate	Abolished
Successor	Department for Transport
Headquarters	London , United Kingdom
Area served	England, Scotland and Wales

The Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom set up under the Transport Act 2000 to provide strategic direction for the railway industry.^[1] Its motto was 'Britain's railway, properly delivered'. It was abolished by the Railways (Abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority) Order 2006, its functions being absorbed by the Department for Transport or the Office of Rail Regulation (now the Office of Rail and Road).