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We have a role in ensuring that Network Rail and rail operators do all that is reasonably practicable to manage the risk of crime.

Our role is to monitor progress by infrastructure controllers, working with the local highway authorities completing detailed risk assessments and any necessary improvements to further reduce incursion risk at vulnerable sites.

Information on Mark 1 rolling, their issues and current use.

Information related to signals passed at danger and what we do about them.

Licence exemptions exempt named operators from the requirement to hold a licence.

Under Part M of Network Rail's Network Code, a party can appeal to ORR against any determination made by the relevant panel of the Access Disputes Committee which it considers to be wrong or unjust because of a serious procedural or other irregularity.

This page contains track access decisions by section since 2014. For older decisions visit the National Archives.

Details of improvement notices and prohibition notices served by our inspectors, and details of prosecutions in England and Wales taken by inspectors and the Procurator Fiscal in Scotland.

Information on health and safety enforcement penalties

If a railway operator wants to access the railway network, it must apply to us for a track access agreement with Network Rail.