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This page contains details of current projects, policy documents and statements regarding access to the rail network.
Access projects
- Capacity at Temple Mills International Depot – initial findings
Published 31 March 2025 - Competing track access applications for 2024 and 2025 timetable changes
Published 29 May 2024 - Access application management, letter to Network Rail and industry dated 24 April 2024
Published 15 May 2024 - Competing applications for access to the West Coast Main Line
Published 21 October 2020 - Access to the West Coast Main Line update letter
Published 22 November 2019 - Access to the West Coast Main Line
Published 11 October 2019 - West Coast Main Line
- East Coast Main Line
Policy documents and statements
- Late and poor quality delivery of Transport for Wales access applications for December 2024 (letter dated 21 January 2025)
Published 23 January 2025 - Assessing the costs and benefits of new open access services: initial findings and next steps - 24 April 2024
- Ensuring access rights align with timetables and industry timetable production compliance - ORR statement dated 24 November 2023
- Timeliness and quality of track access applications for May 2023 timetable change in North West and Central Region - Letter dated 14 August 2023
- 2023 ORR General Approval Audit – Letter to Industry Colleagues - Letter from ORR dated 27 July 2023
- Timeliness and quality of track access applications for May 2023 timetable change in North West and Central Region - Letter from ORR dated 5 June 2023
- ORR letter to DfT and Network Rail on reform of rail timetable production - dated 16 December 2022
- West Coast Main Line (WCML) and East Coast Main Line (ECML) major timetable recasts in 2022/23
- DfT WCML/ECML response dated 29 April
- Network Rail WCML/ECML response dated 28 April
- ORR letter to Network Rail and DfT dated 5 April 2022 and press release
- ORR statement on timetabling and Network Code change requirements
Published 22 February 2022 - ORR statement on future service levels and unused access rights
Published 1 November 2021 - Problems with sale of access rights process - Letter to the railway industry
Published 5 June 2019 - Current applications
- HS2
- Network Rail loading licences