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ORR’s 2023 Authorisations wrapped – 11 new and improved stations across Great Britain

26 January 2024
The opening of a new railway station, or significant improvements to one, brings many benefits for the community it serves- often increasing a station’s capacity, improving accessibility, and providing modern facilities. So it’s important that stations are ready to enter into service as soon as possible, while making sure the organisation that built them has complied with standards covering health

Mainline network

30 January 2025
Network Rail is the owner and operator of the majority of national railway infrastructure.

Network Rail access

30 October 2024
If a railway operator wants to access the Network Rail’s infrastructure, they have to apply to us for a track access agreement with Network Rail.

Annual rail consumer reports

11 July 2024
Our annual reports focusing on the performance of train operators and Network Rail in the consumer areas we regulate.

Review of Network Rail’s access charges

20 October 2022
In this consultation, part of ORR’s periodic review 2023 (PR23) programme, we presented further proposals in respect of Network Rail’s CP7 access charges.

Rail emissions

23 September 2020
Annual statistics covering electricity and diesel consumption of mainline passenger and freight operators in Great Britain and estimates of their associated CO2e emissions. For details on how these statistics are compiled, please see our quality and methodology report and for information on any revisions, please see our Revisions Log. data were previously combined into the Rail infrastructure

Rail infrastructure and assets

23 September 2020
Annual statistics covering average age of rolling stock used by passenger train operating companies and reference data on the mainline infrastructure in Great Britain. For details on how these statistics are compiled, please see our quality and methodology report and for information on any revisions, please see our Revisions Log. We have also written a blog on passenger rolling stock fleet

Improving assisted travel

7 November 2024
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.

Access to regulated networks

22 September 2022
These pages contain details on each infrastructure manager that we regulate. They include information on track access contract applications and decisions relating to each infrastructure manager.