ORR authorises new Beaulieu Park station ahead of opening
16 October 2025
Health and safety
Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3)
6 October 2025
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Helping the rail industry to achieve health and safety excellence.
Great Western Railway fined £1m following fatal 2018 droplight window incident
3 October 2025
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Great Western Railway (GWR) has today been fined £1 million and ordered to pay more than £78,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety law, following an investigation and prosecution by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
Interoperability authorisations
18 September 2025
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Details of all the new, major, upgraded or renewed infrastructure or rolling stock projects we have authorised into service since 2019.
Assessing the costs and benefits of health and safety interventions in rail
18 September 2025
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As the combined safety and economic regulator for Britain’s railway, we reviewed how costs and benefits are assessed for safety initiatives, and whether reasonable practicability is systematically tested by dutyholders.
ORR welcomes industry progress on improving cost effective rail safety decisions
18 September 2025
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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has today welcomed the progress made by industry towards the recommendations it set out as part of joint work with the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and Network Rail to improve health and safety decision making.
ORR authorises significant upgrades to Newquay station
3 September 2025
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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has authorised significant upgrades to Newquay station in Cornwall. The station’s second platform has been reintroduced, and the project is part of a wider scheme to allow coast-to-coast services to operate, including the introduction of a new train passing loop at Goss Moor, and the upgrading or removal of level crossings along the line.
Health and safety by design
1 September 2025
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Health and safety by design aims to eliminate or reduce risks through identifying potential risks at the design stage and taking steps to reduce or eliminate them.
A Year in Rail and Track Ahead, April 2024 to March 2025
17 July 2025
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Our annual reviews of health and safety, Network Rail and our work for passengers.
ORR: Network Rail delivering efficiently, but cost pressures remain and industry must keep focus on safety throughout rail reform
17 July 2025
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• Industry must retain a relentless focus on safety throughout rail reform. • Financial constraints on Network Rail require careful management in the coming years. • Network Rail is taking action where train performance needs to improve. Passenger train punctuality is largely stable, but cancellations have reached record highs, with train operator cancellations the dominant factor.