Blog

ORR brought industry together to discuss how to improve safety, welfare and the customer experience of passengers involved in stranded train incidents. This blog explains how industry can build on the progress already made.

Productivity matters. It is a major driver of growth and value – and rail is no different.

Simon Barber, ORR Principal Inspector, explains the importance of holding health and safety workshops for the heritage sector.

RIDDOR stands for Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations and we are the enforcing authority for RIDDOR within the railway industry.

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.

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

Each year we assess National Highways’ performance against a range of government set targets that it should deliver over the second road period (RP2, which runs from 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2025).

We explain what factors influence changes in the average age of rolling stock.