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Financial ring-fence

20 April 2022
Condition 4 (financial ring-fence) of Network Rail's network licence includes a number of provisions.

Learning the lessons: ORR review into Hitachi Class 800 series and Class 385 cracking issue

7 April 2022
ORR immediately launched a review of both the passenger and safety impact following Hitachi Rail Class 800 series trains withdrawn from service for safety checks on Great Western Railway, London North Eastern Railway, TransPennine Express and Hull Trains, along with cracks being separately discovered after examination on ScotRail’s Class 385 and Southeastern’s Class 395 trains in May 2021.

Responses to RAIB reports 2013

6 April 2022
Our responses to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) in relation to their recommendations published in 2013.

Publication scheme

23 March 2022
Our publication scheme specifies the categories of information that we publish and explains how to obtain that information.

Prohibition notices

21 February 2022
Our inspectors normally enforce health and safety standards by giving advice on how to comply with the law. Sometimes they must order people to make improvements by issuing them with a notice, for example a prohibition notice, which prohibits an activity until remedial action has been taken.
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