All our periodic review 2023 (PR23) legal notices will be added to this page during the review. It also includes links to Network Rail's price lists for track access charges.
Review implementation notices (March 2024) Collapse accordion Open accordion
On 13 March 2024, we concluded the statutory implementation process for PR23 by serving and publishing review implementation notices pursuant to paragraph 7 of Schedule 4A to the Railways Act 1993. These confirmed that the changes we proposed to make to access agreements (as set out in the review notices that we issued on 20 December 2023) would be implemented on 1 April 2024.
The review implementation notices directed the parties to the relevant access agreements to amend their agreements so that the changes would come into effect on and from the 1 April 2024.
The seven review implementation notices, and the accompanying covering letter that we issued with them, are available below. We have also included MS Word versions of the template supplemental agreements for the parties to access agreements to use when complying with our directions.
- Cover letter: PR23 review implementation notices dated 13 March 2024
- PR23 review implementation notice: Charter Operator Track Access Agreements
- PR23 Charter Operator - template supplemental agreement (Word document)
- PR23 review implementation notice: Public Service Passenger Operator Track Access Agreements
- PR23 Public Service Operator - template supplemental agreement (Word document)
- PR23 review implementation notice: Open Access Passenger Track Access Agreements
- PR23 Open Access (non-TER) - template supplemental agreement (Word document) (NYMR and Eurostar)
- PR23 Open Access (TER) - template supplemental agreement (Word document) (East Coast, Grand Central, Grand Union Trains No.2, Hull Trains, South Yorkshire Supertram and West Coast Railway Company)
- PR23 review implementation notice: Freight Operator Track Access Agreements
- PR23 Freight Operator - template supplemental agreement (Word document)
- PR23 review implementation notice: Freight Customer Track Access Agreements
- PR23 Freight Customer - template supplemental agreement (Word document)
- PR23 review implementation notice: Station Long Term Charges
- PR23 Stations - template supplemental agreement (Word document)
- PR23 review implementation notice: Traction Electricity Rules
Notices of agreement (February 2024) Collapse accordion Open accordion
On 12 February 2024, we issued ‘notices of agreement’ to Network Rail’s access contract customers (beneficiaries). These confirmed that Network Rail had not objected to the proposed changes to access contracts set out in our review notices (issued on 20 December 2023). The notices of agreement provide the beneficiaries 28 days from the date of service in which to decide to give notice to terminate their agreements, if they wished to do so. These are available below:
- Cover letter: notices of agreement
- Notice of agreement: Charter Operator Track Access Agreements
- Notice of agreement: Freight Customer Track Access Agreements
- Notice of agreement: Freight Operator Track Access Agreements
- Notice of agreement: Open Access Passenger Track Access Agreements
- Notice of agreement: Public Service Passenger Operator Track Access Agreements
- Notice of agreement: Station Long Term Charges
- Notice of agreement: Traction Electricity Rules
Review notices (December 2023) Collapse accordion Open accordion
On 20 December 2023, we initiated statutory implementation of the 2023 periodic review. We did this by serving review notices and publishing them on our website pursuant to paragraph 4 to Schedule 4A to the Railways Act 1993.
The seven review notices, and the accompanying covering letter that we issued with them, are available below:
- Cover letter: Implementation of the 2023 periodic review
- Review notice: Station Long Term Charges
- Review notice: Traction Electricity Rules
- Review notice: Freight Customer Track Access Agreements
- Review notice: Freight Operator Track Access Agreements
- Review notice: Charter Passenger Operator Track Access Agreements
- Review notice: Open Access Passenger Operator Track Access Agreements
- Review notice: Public Service Passenger Operator Track Access Agreements
We consulted in July 2023 on how we would implement PR23 into track and access contracts. In February 2024, we plan to publish our conclusions on this. This will explain our final decisions on drafting, as set out in the review notices.
Network Rail’s price lists and schedules of charges for CP7 Collapse accordion Open accordion
On 20 December 2023 Network Rail published its price lists/schedules of charges that will apply to track access contracts in control period 7 (CP7). CP7 will run from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2029. These are available on Network Rail's website. Where appropriate, Network Rail will also publish annual versions showing CPI uplifts.
The original December 2023 CP7 price lists/schedules for track access contracts are set out below. They include:
Extension notice (December 2022) Collapse accordion Open accordion
This notice extends the deadline set out in our notice of 27 October 2022 for Scottish Ministers to submit the documents known as the high-level output specification and statement of funds available to us.
Notice
Covering letter
Extension notice (November 2022) Collapse accordion Open accordion
This notice extends the deadline set out in our notice of 27 October 2022 for the Secretary of State to submit the documents known as the high-level output specifications and statement of funds available to us.
Notice
Covering letter
Extension notices (October 2022) Collapse accordion Open accordion
These notices extend the deadline set out in our notices of 9 June 2022 for the Secretary of State and Scottish Ministers to submit the documents known as the high-level output specifications and statement of funds available to us.
Notices
Covering letters
Review initiation notices Collapse accordion Open accordion
This notice sets out our proposal to undertake an access charges review under paragraph 1C of schedule 4A to the Railways Act 1993. This initiates the formal legal process for the 2023 periodic review.
It also sets out the dates by which the Secretary of State for Transport and Scottish Ministers should submit (separately) their High-Level Output Specification (HLOS) and the Statement of Funds Available (SoFA).
We are serving two different notices to the Secretary of State and the Scottish Ministers, reflecting that we require their respective HLOS and SoFA on different dates:
- the Secretary of State is required to submit his HLOS and SoFA by 28 October 2022; and
- Scottish Ministers are required to submit their HLOS and SoFA by 30 November 2022.