Guidance

Crowding on trains and at stations is common and we need to make sure railway companies protect passengers from any health and safety risks when it happens.

Our responsibilities and HSE's responsibilities for enforcing asbestos laws and what those laws require.

Network Rail’s regulatory accounts provide information on Network Rail’s financial performance on a regulatory basis.

Train protection is equipment fitted to trains and the track that can reduce risks from signals passed at danger (SPADs) and over-speeding.

This page contains guidance modules and the application form for track access by passenger operators, both public service operators and open access.

This page includes guidance, the application form, model contracts and general approvals for track access by freight operators.

Guidance for train operators and the infrastructure manager on train driving licences

There are well over 200 minor and heritage railways operating across Great Britain, and we are responsible for regulating their safety.

All train drivers who drive on Britain's mainline railway must have, by law, a train driving licence.

An overview of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority for Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems) Regulations 2006 (as amended) (EARR).