Publications

Here you'll find all our publications, reports, determinations and statements. 

Changes to Network Rail's licence

13 January 2014
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Date published: 15 November 2013 Closing date: 12 December 2013 This was a formal statutory consultation on our updated proposed changes to conditions in Network Rail's network licence. The changes are mainly to clarify, streamline and simplify obligations. Subject to this consultation and Network Rail's consent, we intend to make the changes proposed no later than 1 April 2014. This consultation

Further help and guidance

13 January 2014
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This page provides sources of further guidance on managing work-related stress, including the business case for better stress management.

Decisions library

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

Advice and guidance on workplace health

13 January 2014
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Information is provided for employers and employees on health in the work place generally, specific health issues, healthy lifestyles and managing health risks

Risk management

13 January 2014
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High-level guidance and general principles on assessing whether risks on Britain's railways have been reduced so far as is reasonably practicable.

Topic specific guidance

10 January 2014
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Information is provided here for employers and employees on health in the work place generally, specific health issues, healthy lifestyles and managing health risks.

Implementing the EC4T cost reconciliation

14 December 2013

Content archived on 24 November 2024

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This was a consultation on the principles of and changes to the contractual wording for the cost reconciliation (or "cost wash-up") for charges for electric current for traction (EC4T) as part of the 2013 periodic review (PR13).

Published statistics

6 December 2013
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We are the primary producer of Official Statistics for rail. On our data portal we publish a suite of rail statistics covering six main themes, including performance, usage and safety. Statistical releases provide commentary on the latest statistics to help users interpret the data. In addition, we publish associated data tables and interactive dashboards. The majority of our statistics have been

Service disruption

6 December 2013
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Information about who to contact if your train service is disrupted and the different types of train service disruption.

Fares and penalty fares

6 December 2013
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We are not the regulator for fares and have no role in relation to penalty fares.

Implementing PR13 - capacity charge

4 November 2013

Content archived on 24 November 2024

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This consultation was extended to 4 November 2013, as explained in our update letter of 25 October 2013 clarifying the contractual wording in relation to freight operators.

Implementing PR13 - charter operators

25 October 2013

Content archived on 24 November 2024

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his consultation set out the specific changes we propose to make to charter track access agreements to implement our 2013 periodic review (PR13).

Capacity charge for freight operators

14 October 2013

Content archived on 24 November 2024

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This letter was a consultation setting out the ORR's proposed conclusions for the capacity charge for freight operators in control period 5 (CP5), with reference to the Rail Delivery Group (RDG)'s proposal received in the letter dated 13 September 2013 .

Consultative letter expanding on the discussion of the capacity charge

14 September 2013

Content archived on 24 November 2024

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This letter expanded on the discussion of the capacity charge in chapter 16 of ORR's draft determination of Network Rail's outputs and funding and, in particular, on the proposal put forward by the Rail Freight Operators' Association (RFOA).

Draft determination

14 September 2013

Content archived on 24 November 2024

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The 2013 Periodic Review (PR13) is the process through which we determine the outputs that Network Rail must deliver, the efficient cost of delivering those outputs, and the access charges the company can levy on train operators for using its network to recover those costs. Our draft determination set out our package of overall decisions on PR13 for consultation.

Implementing PR13

14 September 2013

Content archived on 24 November 2024

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This consultation set out the specific changes we proposed to make to track and station access agreements and Network Rail's network licence to implement our 2013 periodic review (PR13).

The Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations

21 May 2013
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The European Commission adopted Regulation 445/2011 on a system of certification of ECMs for freight wagons (the ECM Regulation) on 10 May 2011. We have consulted on the draft regulations to give effect to the ECM Regulation in Great Britain and bring the enforcement of it in line with our existing enforcement remit. In the light of lessons learned from operating under the current regime and other

Contingency planning for PR13 implementation

17 May 2013

Content archived on 24 November 2024

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In April 2013, we consulted Network Rail and train operators on our proposed contingency plan in the event that there is a delay to the formal implementation of the 2013 periodic review (PR13).