Publications

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

Applying for an exemption for Mark 1 or hinged door rolling stock.

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

These documents are part of how we hold Network Rail to account.

ORR's civil service survey results.

The purpose of the disclosure of public body size and salary data is to provide transparency to the public on the value of public sector posts.

This guidance sets out our approach to regulating track access.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We have agency agreements and co-operation agreements with different government departments and agencies.