Access and licensing

Railway licences for companies listed K – R.

We regulate access to around 100 light maintenance depots in Britain which provide services to passenger and other trains.

Information about applying for a licence or licence exemption, the costs involved and the application forms you will need to use.

This page contains information on access and licensing on the Heathrow Spur.

The current standard versions of licences and licence exemptions in use.

This page sets out the background of Network Rail’s Network Code, which is the set of rules behind the contractual relationship between Network Rail and the passenger and freight operating companies that run trains on their infrastructure.

This section contains decisions we have made since 2020. For older decisions, please see our decisions library. All approved agreements and subsequently approved amendments to track access decisions are held on our public register.

This section contains station access applications and decisions made under sections 17 or 22A of the Railways Act 1993.