Office of the Rail Regulator

THE RAILWAYS ACT 1993 (AS AMENDED)

Non-passenger Train and Network Licence Exemption Application by: TNT UK Limited (“the Applicant”) Company Registration Number: 1628530. Registered Address of the Applicant: PO Box 99, Railway Street, Ramsbottom, Lancashire BL0 9AL. Directors of the Applicant: Thomas Bell, Neil Crossthwaite, Gerard Francis Ginty, William Vincent Hanley, Alan David Jones, Stephen Lay, John Thomas Yates, Adrianes Johannes Scheepbouwer and Martinus Peter Bakker. The Rail Regulator hereby gives notice in accordance with section 7(4) of the Railways Act 1993 (as amended) that he proposes to grant the Applicant a non-passenger train and network operating licence exemption. The proposed exempt network and non-passenger train operations will be within a freight terminal at Birch Coppice, Dordon. The Rail Regulator proposes to grant the licence exemption subject to all necessary legal requirements, on the grounds that the network is secure and segregated from the national network and the non-passenger train operation is to be confined to a rail freight only network. Any person who wishes to make any representation or objection with respect to the proposed grant of a non-passenger train and network operating licence exemption should send such representations, objections or requests to: Nadir Hafeez, Market Structure & Licensing, Directorate of Access, Competition & Licensing, Office of the Rail Regulator, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138-142 Holborn, London EC1N 2TQ, not later than 23 November 2001. T Winsor, Rail Regulator 26 October 2001.