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‘Evolution, not revolution for rail health and safety’

6 August 2024
In ORR's latest Annual Rail Health and Safety report, Richard Hines, the new HM Chief Inspector of Railways, says the industry cannot afford to be complacent when faced with the effects of climate change, an increased reliance on maintaining existing infrastructure rather than replacement, and a period of significant change through reform.

Expanding ORR’s rail environment data

20 December 2024
Each year, ORR publishes statistics on annual energy use and estimated emissions for passenger and freight trains in Great Britain. This is based on their electricity and diesel traction consumption – the energy used to power passenger and freight trains.

Network Rail's Network Code

22 February 2022
This page sets out the background of Network Rail’s Network Code, which is the set of rules behind the contractual relationship between Network Rail and the passenger and freight operating companies that run trains on their infrastructure.

Benchmarking Network Rail's costs

5 December 2024
ORR's latest analysis provides an important check on the costs of delivering rail infrastructure maintenance and renewals.

Current appeals under Network Rail's Network Code

13 January 2014
Under Part M of Network Rail's Network Code, a party can appeal to ORR against any determination made by the relevant panel of the Access Disputes Committee which it considers to be wrong or unjust because of a serious procedural or other irregularity.

Office of Rail and Road Update - February 2017

21 February 2017
We begin this month’s edition of our newsletter with the announcement that Joanna Whittington has been confirmed in her appointment as Chief Executive Officer at ORR following an open public competition. The appointment is effective immediately.

Office of Rail and Road Update - March 2017

27 March 2017
Late last month the ORR Board headed to Cardiff, where we met some of you from Wales and Western England. At Newport Docks we heard about the challenges for rail freight and road access, and the implications for the planned M4 diversion.

The supply of signalling services to Network Rail market study

14 January 2014
Study of the National Audit Offices' report on the modernisation of the West Coast mainline, 2006. In November 2006 the National Audit Office ('NAO') published a report on the modernisation of the West Coast mainline. As part of this report the NAO gave consideration to how the requirement to deliver the project within a tight schedule added to the costs of the project. The report specified that

General liability insurance in the rail industry market study

14 January 2014
We undertook a phase 1 market study of general liability insurance for the rail industry in 2006 as part of the wider review of insurance conducted by ORR's licensing team. The scope of the study was to make an assessment of whether the market(s) for the provision of rail liability insurance was/were functioning effectively, including the identification of any features or combination of features

Rail Regulator calls for ticket machine price guarantee

10 February 2017
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is calling on train operators to refund passengers after its new research showed that overall 1 in 5 mystery shoppers selected a more expensive ticket than necessary or were at risk of a penalty fare when using a ticket machine.