At the heart of PR18 is our assessment of what Network Rail must achieve from 2019 to 2024, the funding it requires for this, and the incentives needed to encourage delivery and outperformance.
Date published: 31 October 2018
The 2018 periodic review (PR18) was the process through which we determined what Network Rail should deliver in respect of its role in operating, maintaining and renewing its network in control period 6 (CP6) and how the funding available should be best used to support this. CP6 will run from 2019-2024. This feeds through into:
- the service that passengers and freight customers receive and, together with taxpayers, ultimately pay for; and
- the charges that Network Rail’s customers, including passenger, freight and charter train operators, will pay for access to its track and stations during CP6.
Our final determination set out our overall decisions on this, along with our approach for how we would regulate Network Rail’s delivery in CP6. It included separate proposed decisions for England & Wales and for Scotland, reflecting legislative requirements relating to how Network Rail is funded.
Press release - England and Wales
Press release - Scotland
Main overview documents
Executive summary – England & Wales
Executive summary – Scotland
PR18 final determination: overview of approach and decisions
The final determination includes a number of supporting documents, which are set out below:
- a document summarising the comments we received on the draft determination and our response to these (the full responses are available)
- supplementary documents providing more detail on our review of Network Rail’s strategic business plans and the follow-up work it did over summer 2018 in response to our draft determination
- supplementary documents providing more detail on the policy framework for CP6
- documents setting out the individual settlements for Network Rail’s routes and the System Operator
- a range of other related documents.
For reference, the documents we published as part of our draft determination for PR18 are available on our website. The independent consultancy and reporter studies relating to our final determination are also available.
Supplementary documents relating to our assessment of Network Rail’s plans
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- Stakeholder engagement supplementary document
- Scorecards and requirements:
- Supplementary document and annex
- Independent reporter studies that informed our decisions
- Arup assessment of Network Rail’s response to the performance challenges within the draft determination
- SNC-Lavalin - Assessing Network Rail’s delivery of Network Availability in CP6 - summary slides
- SNC-Lavalin - Assessing Network Rail’s delivery of Network Availability in CP6 - full report
- Arup review of Network Capability in CP5
- Arup recommendations on the monitoring and assessment of Network Capability in CP6
- Network availability in control periods 5 and 6
- Impact assessments
- Health & safety supplementary document
- Review of Network Rail’s proposed costs supplementary document
(our July 2018 report on econometric top-down benchmarking is available) - Other single till income supplementary document
Supplementary documents relating to our policy approach
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Financial framework supplementary document
Review of Network Rail’s network licence supplementary document
Charges and incentives
- Overview of charges and incentives decisions – supplementary document
- Conclusions to consultation on infrastructure cost charges – supplementary document
- PR18 Infrastructure cost charges – Final impact assessment on the design of franchised passenger operators’ infrastructure cost charges
- PR18 Infrastructure cost charges – Final impact assessment on the Network Rail methodology for allocating fixed costs to train operators
- Conclusions to consultation on the variable usage charge – supplementary document
- Variable usage charge - Final impact assessment on capping/phasing-in the VUC in CP6
CP6 settlement documents
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England & Wales routes:
- Anglia route settlement document
- London North Eastern & East Midlands route settlement document
- London North Western route settlement document
- South East route settlement document
- Wales route settlement document
- Wessex route settlement document
- Western route settlement document
System Operator settlement document
Freight & National Passenger Operator settlement document