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This page contains details of current projects, policy documents and statements regarding access to the rail network.
Due to the pre-election period, ORR is only publishing new material which we are either bound by statute to publish or which is of an operational nature. This will be the case until the General Election concludes.
Access projects
- Competing track access applications for 2024 and 2025 timetable changes
Published 29 May 2024 - Access application management, letter to Network Rail and industry dated 24 April 2024
Published 15 May 2024 - Competing applications for access to the West Coast Main Line
Published 21 October 2020 - Access to the West Coast Main Line update letter
Published 22 November 2019 - Access to the West Coast Main Line
Published 11 October 2019 - West Coast Main Line
- East Coast Main Line
Policy documents and statements
- Assessing the costs and benefits of new open access services: initial findings and next steps - 24 April 2024
- Ensuring access rights align with timetables and industry timetable production compliance - ORR statement dated 24 November 2023
- Timeliness and quality of track access applications for May 2023 timetable change in North West and Central Region - Letter dated 14 August 2023
- 2023 ORR General Approval Audit – Letter to Industry Colleagues - Letter from ORR dated 27 July 2023
- Timeliness and quality of track access applications for May 2023 timetable change in North West and Central Region - Letter from ORR dated 5 June 2023
- ORR letter to DfT and Network Rail on reform of rail timetable production - dated 16 December 2022
- West Coast Main Line (WCML) and East Coast Main Line (ECML) major timetable recasts in 2022/23
- DfT WCML/ECML response dated 29 April
- Network Rail WCML/ECML response dated 28 April
- ORR letter to Network Rail and DfT dated 5 April 2022 and press release
- ORR statement on timetabling and Network Code change requirements
Published 22 February 2022 - ORR statement on future service levels and unused access rights
Published 1 November 2021 - Problems with sale of access rights process - Letter to the railway industry
Published 5 June 2019 - Current applications
- HS2
- Network Rail loading licences