Alongside the Accessible Travel Policy Guidance and the responses themselves, we have published a summary of the responses, and set out the steps we will take to ensure train and station operators, including Network Rail, deliver these improvements.
New Accessible Travel Policy guidance from ORR calls on train companies to cut booking notice times, increase reliability of provision, improve staff training, and offer redress when things go wrong.
This document is the Office of Rail and Road's submission to The Williams Rail Review. It is in response to a request from Mr Williams, made in February 2019 at the annual Bradshaw address.
Assisted travel reforms include improving the reliability of assistance for passengers, a shorter timeframe for booking assistance, and compensation when things go wrong. ORR recommends that train operators must tell passengers of their right to compensation during a journey and settle claims within 20 days.
We commissioned quantitative and focus group research to explore passengers’ awareness of terms and conditions, both in general when travelling by train on the national rail network (the National Rail Conditions of Travel - NRCoT) and specific to ticket type and format.