Enforcement

This page contains details of improvement notices issued in 2019

This page contains details of prohibition notices issued in 2019.

Following a review into both Network Rail’s approach to performance planning and its capability to recover services following incidents, ORR considered Network Rail to appear to be contravening Licence Condition 1: Network Management and on 29 November 2018, issued a Provisional Order. Network Rail responded on 15 February 2019 and following a detailed analysis ORR is content that the report

In October 2018, ORR opened two separate investigations to consider whether Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and Northern breached their licence condition around providing appropriate, accurate and timely information in both the run-up to the introduction of the 20 May 2018 timetable and also during the disruption that followed.

In May 2018, a new timetable was introduced for large parts of the UK’s railway network. This caused major disruption to services for passengers, especially in the North of England and in the South East.