Rail professionals

Our final determination sets out our overall package of decisions for the periodic review 2013 (PR13).

As the safety and economic regulator of the rail industry and Highways England’s monitor, we work with a number of organisations in the railway industry.

The rail infrastructure in the UK is complex and comprises of a number of different bodies. We are the health and safety regulator for the UK’s mainline network and for a number of other forms of transport that run on rail.

Independent reporters provide professional advice to the ORR on the quality of Network Rail's service provision, as specified in its licence.

The 2008 Periodic Review (PR08) set the outputs that Network Rail must deliver, and the level of access charges paid by train operators for use of the infrastructure from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2014, or control period 4 (CP4).