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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

Network Rail access

22 September 2022
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.

Mainline network

28 March 2024
Network Rail is the owner and operator of the majority of national railway infrastructure.

Annual rail consumer report 2023

12 July 2023
Our annual report 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

Improving Assisted Travel

8 June 2023
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.

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

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.

PR23 policy framework initial consultations

19 December 2022
A consultation on outcomes, infrastructure performance and managing change and a technical consultation on the measures in our proposed CP7 outcomes framework.

Passenger rail usage

23 September 2020
Quarterly statistics reporting the volume of passenger journeys, kilometres and revenue on the mainline network in Great Britain. Long-running time series on passenger journeys (Table 1220) and passenger kilometres (Table 1230) are updated annually. For details on how these statistics are compiled, please see our quality and methodology report and for information on any revisions, please see our