This page contains depot access applications and decisions made under sections 17 or 22A of the Railways Act 1993.
Current applications
Trenitalia France
Date application received: 28 March 2025
Applicant: Trenitalia France
Depot to which the application applies: Temple Mills International
Related documents:
- Letter from Trenitalia France – 26 May 2025
- Eurostar’s initial written representations – 9 May 2025
- Trenitalia France further information letter (redacted) – 11 April 2025
Note: on its application form dated 28 March 2025, Trenitalia France referenced commercial correspondence provided on a confidential basis and not for publication. ORR sought clarification from Trenitalia France on the terms of this correspondence and its application. Trenitalia France has responded in its letter of 11 April 2025, which it has confirmed can be published. - Trenitalia France application form (redacted) – 28 March 2025
Gemini Trains
Date application received: 28 February 2025
Applicant: Gemini Trains
Depot to which the application applies: Temple Mills International
Related documents:
- Letter from Gemini Trains - 22 April 2025
- Eurostar’s initial written representations - 1 April 2025
Note: In paragraph 43 of its letter dated 1 April 2025, Eurostar explained that it had highlighted, in yellow, the parts of the letter that should not be published on the basis that, to Eurostar’s knowledge, Trenitalia France had not made its approach in relation to access to TMI publicly known. Trenitalia France has now made its approach publicly known and it submitted a s.17 application (also published on ORR’s website) and, as such, we are publishing Eurostar’s letter in full. - Gemini Trains application form (redacted) - 28 February 2025
VTE Holdings Limited
Date application received: 23 October 2024
Applicant: VTE Holdings Limited
Depot to which the application applies: Temple Mills International
Related documents:
- Letter from VTE Holdings Limited - 17 January 2025
- Eurostar’s further written representations - 17 December 2024
Note: in paragraph 36 of its letter dated 17 December 2024, Eurostar explained that it had highlighted, in green, at paragraphs 18 and 23, information which, in Eurostar’s view, VTE Holdings Limited considered to be confidential. VTE Holdings Limited subsequently confirmed that this information could remain unredacted, so paragraphs 18 and 23 of Eurostar’s letter have been published without any redactions. - VTE Holdings Limited updated application form (redacted) – 8 November 2024
Note: in section 6.4 of its updated application form VTE Holdings Limited requested that the dates in section 2.4 be excluded from publication. VTE Holdings Limited subsequently confirmed that section 2.4 could remain unredacted, so section 2.4 in the updated application form has been published without any redactions. - Eurostar’s initial written representations - 13 November 2024
- VTE Holdings Limited application form (redacted) - 23 October 2024
Evolyn
Date application received: 23 August 2024
Applicant: Evolyn
Depot to which the application applies: Temple Mills International
Related documents:
- Letter from Evolyn - 6 February 2025
- Letter from ORR to Evolyn - 31 January 2025
- Letter from Evolyn - 13 December 2024
- Letter from Evolyn - 5 December 2024
- Eurostar's further written representations - 21 November 2024
- Evolyn updated application form (redacted) - 24 October 2024
- Eurostar's initial written representations - 25 September 2024
- Evolyn application form (redacted) - 23 August 2024
Other correspondence:
- ORR response to Eurostar representations - 27 February 2025
Previous decisions
Our previous decisions on depot access applications made under sections 17 or 22A are listed below. For details of older decisions not on this page please visit the National Archives.
Hitachi Rail Limited
Date of decision: 29 April 2021
Applicant: Hitachi Rail Limited
Depot to which the application applied: Leeds Neville Hill
Related documents:
- Hitachi application form (redacted)
- Application form - Enclosure 1 (redacted)
- Application form - Enclosure 2
- Application form - Enclosure 3 (redacted)
- Application form - Enclosure 4
- Representations from Abellio East Midlands Limited (redacted) – 18 August 2020
- Hitachi response to Abellio East Midlands’ representations (redacted) – 27 August 2020
- Further representations from Abellio East Midlands Limited (redacted) – 23 October 2020
- Further representations from Abellio East Midlands Limited (redacted) – 9 November 2020
- Hitachi response to further representations from Abellio East Midlands Limited (redacted) – 24 November 2020
- Further representations from Abellio East Midlands (redacted) – 8 December 2020
- Further representations from Hitachi Rail Limited (redacted) – 8 January 2021
- Decision letter – 29 April 2021
- Directions notice – 29 April 2021
- Directed DAA (redacted)