Publications

This guidance sets out our approach to regulating track access.

How we hold Network Rail to account against the network licence.

Our monitoring framework and enforcement policy for National Highways, and how we monitor the company’s performance and identify, escalate and resolve areas of concern.

Network Rail is the owner and operator of the majority of national railway infrastructure.

Condition 17 of Network Rail's network licence safeguards against the inappropriate disposal of land assets.

This page is intended to be used as a quick reference for all ORR-issued template documentation relating to station and depot access, including access agreements, access conditions, annexes, amending documents and amending agreements.

Network Rail's network licence includes a condition providing for independent experts (reporters) to be appointed by the network operator (Network Rail), to provide ORR with advice on different aspects of Network Rail’s performance.

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

This page gives an overview of how European railway safety legislation has been retained in the UK.

Train and station operators are required by their operating licences to establish and comply with an Accessible Travel Policy (ATP) which must be approved by us.

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.

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

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

One of our core activities is to benchmark National Highways' performance and efficiency across its own regional areas or against comparable organisations.

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.

Accessible Travel Policies (ATPs) decision letters

Our decisions on new contracts where Network Rail and the train operator could not reach agreement.

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