Publications

Here you'll find all our publications, reports, determinations and statements. 

Benchmarking of Network Rail’s costs

5 December 2024
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This page presents our cost benchmarking analysis of Network Rail's costs. It covers the analysis we undertook in different periodic reviews as well as reports we produced as part of our regular monitoring of Network Rail’s cost performance.

Monitoring Network Rail's efficiency

4 December 2024
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Our efficiency and finance assessment of Network Rail for 2024 relates to the fifth year of control period 6 (CP6). It also looks back at CP6 as a whole, which ran from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2024.

Mainline certificates

28 November 2024
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ROGS safety certificates and authorisations issued by us for mainline operators.

Non-mainline certificates

28 November 2024
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ROGS safety certificates and authorisations issued by us for non-mainline operators.

Network statements

28 November 2024
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A network statement is an annual publication that each major UK network operator must produce.

Interoperability authorisations

19 November 2024
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Details of all the new, major, upgraded or renewed infrastructure or rolling stock projects we have authorised into service since 2019.

Land disposal policy

19 November 2024
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It is important that land in which Network Rail has an interest and which may be important to the continuing operation and future development of the network, and services relating to railways, is not disposed of against the public interest. Condition 17 of Network Rail's network licence safeguards against the inappropriate disposal of land assets.

PR23 charges and incentives

13 November 2024
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This section is dedicated to the charges and incentives work relating to PR23, including links to consultations, publications and background research.

Modifications to Network Rail's Network Code

13 November 2024
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The rail industry can propose changes to Network Rail's Network Code through Part C. ORR has a role to approve those changes as any modifications to the Code may have a bearing on Track Access contracts.

Reliability of help points at stations

7 November 2024
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An assessment of the maintenance and passenger provision of help points based on quantitative and qualitative data from 21 station operators.

Improving assisted travel

7 November 2024
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Our Accessible Travel Policy guidance for train and station operators sets out the commitments they must include in their policies for helping older and disabled people to travel by rail.

Rail compensation

6 November 2024
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When passengers are delayed beyond a certain length of time they become entitled to claim compensation, regardless of whether the company they are travelling with is responsible for the delay they have experienced.

Competing track access applications

4 November 2024
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Information on how competing and complex applications for the December 2024, May 2025 and December 2025 timetable changes will be considered.

Whistleblowing to ORR

31 October 2024
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Information on how to make a whistleblowing disclosure to the Office of Rail and Road.