Publications

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

All documents related to competing applications received from passenger operators.

All documents related to competing applications received from freight operators.

Information on complaints handling procedures for train and station operators.

This page contains guidance, forms and decisions we have made regarding appeals under The Railways (Access, Management and Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations 2016.

Reports on Network Rail’s efficiency and wider financial performance, and the wider rail industry’s productivity.

Our review into the competition remedies for rolling stock companies.

As the combined safety and economic regulator for Britain’s railway, we reviewed how costs and benefits are assessed for safety initiatives, and whether reasonable practicability is systematically tested by dutyholders.

This content and related publications refer to our annual assessment of safety on the strategic road network.

We are responsible for monitoring and enforcing the performance and efficiency of National Highways in its delivery of the Smart Motorway Action Plan.

The Railway Industry Health and Safety Advisory Committee (RIHSAC) provides advice on railway health and safety and comments on proposed new regulations and guidance.

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

Covering funding for the period from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2030, also known as control period 4 (CP4).

This page contains depot access applications and decisions made under sections 17 or 22A of the Railways Act 1993.

Workforce information is sent to the Cabinet Office regularly and it includes the number of staff by grade, payroll and non-payroll.

Our research and findings on the transparency of online rail ticket fees.

This page contains all Core Valley Lines (CVL) track access application consultations, decisions, consolidated agreements, and the CVL charging framework. It also contains information on the CVL Network Code, including details of any approved modifications to the Code, and our consultations on a network licence for the operator of the network.

Our decisions on amendments to contracts where Network Rail and the train operator were in agreement.

Our responses to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) in relation to their recommendations published in 2024.

Our responses to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) in relation to their recommendations published in 2023.

Our responses to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) in relation to their recommendations published in 2022.

Our work on the CP7 performance reset, including links to consultations and other publications.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has completed its market study into the provision of railway station catering services.