Access and licensing

This page contains details of current projects, policy documents and statements regarding access to the rail network.

This page contains depot access applications and decisions made under sections 17 or 22A of the Railways Act 1993.

Information on how competing and complex applications for the December 2024, May 2025 and December 2025 timetable changes will be considered.

All documents related to competing applications received from freight operators.

All documents related to competing applications received from passenger operators.

This page contains guidance, forms and decisions we have made regarding appeals under The Railways (Access, Management and Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations 2016.

This page contains all Core Valley Lines (CVL) track access application consultations, decisions, consolidated agreements, and the CVL charging framework. It also contains information on the CVL Network Code, including details of any approved modifications to the Code, and our consultations on a network licence for the operator of the network.

Our decisions on amendments to contracts where Network Rail and the train operator were in agreement.