Directly Operated Railways Limited
Directly Operated Railways Limited (DOR) was a company, wholly owned by the Secretary of State for Transport (via the Department for Transport).

This organisation was formed to assume the operations of passenger rail franchises which were brought into public ownership - sometimes known as an "operator of last resort" (OLR) [1, 2]; and was the parent company to East Coast Main Line Company Limited [3, 4] up until the re-franchise to Virgin and Stagecoach on 28th February 2015.

The company subsequently became defunct, and was dissolved on 27 December 2022[5].

Operations that would previously have fallen under the remit of DOR are now handled by another organisation: DfT OLR Holdings Limited