Railtrack - Search

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The Railtrack search engine is a simple but powerful tool that will help you find the information you want within the extensive Railtrack website. (For timetable enquiries, please visit the Railtrack timetable.)

Enter a keyword into the search field and click on 'search'. The search engine will then present you with a list of the pages it has found that contain that word. Click on any of the items in the list to go to the page.

For example, if you want to find a speech by Railtrack's chairman, entering 'chairman' into the search field will return a list of all pages on the Railtrack site containing the word 'chairman'.

Upper and lowercase characters

If you use uppercase characters in your search, your results will only look for the words with uppercase characters as you have written them. If you just use lowercase however, the engine will look for both upper and lowercase versions of the word. So when you enter 'chairman' the engine will look for both 'chairman' and 'Chairman'.

Phrases

If you type in a phrase, for example, 'chairman's report', the search engine will look for the exact phrase 'chairman's report'. If you want the search engine to look for pages containing both those words, but not necessarily as a phrase, then you can do so using our search engine's advanced search features.

Advanced Searches

AND, OR and NOT
As well as simply typing in a keyword or a phrase into the Railtrack search engine, you can use the words AND, OR and NOT to perform more advanced searches.

For example, if you want to search for pages with the words 'chairman' and 'report' in (but not necessarily together as a phrase), simply enter 'chairman AND report' in the search field.

If you want to search for pages with the word 'chairman' or the word 'report', enter 'chairman OR report'.

If you want to search for pages with the word 'chairman' but not the word 'report', enter 'chairman NOT report'.

Remember, you must type the words AND, OR, and NOT in uppercase for them to work in this way. In the unlikely event of you wanting to search for the word 'AND' (or any of the other special words) in a document, you can turn off its functions using the / (backslash) character. So entering '/AND' will search the Railtrack site for pages containing the word 'AND' in uppercase characters.

Wildcards

You can use the wildcard character, * (asterisk) to broaden your search. For example, if you are not sure whether Railtrack has a chairman, a chairwoman or a chairperson, you can search for all pages containing words beginning with 'chair' simply by entering 'chair*'.