When passengers are delayed beyond a certain length of time they become entitled to claim compensation, regardless of whether the company they are travelling with is responsible for the delay they have experienced.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is calling on Network Rail to improve train punctuality and reliability for passengers and freight across its Eastern region.
A consolidated (or conformed) agreement is a document incorporating all approved amendments to the existing approved agreement. We do not approve these consolidated agreements, they are provided by Network Rail for reference purposes only to provide an overview of the current terms of the contract.
Each year we assess National Highways’ performance against a range of government set targets that it should deliver over the second road period (RP2, which runs from 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2025).
The Competition Act 1998 prohibits any agreement, business practice or conduct which has, or could have, a damaging effect on competition in the United Kingdom.
In the second of our blogs remembering the Ladbroke Grove rail tragedy on 5 October 1999, Ian Maxwell, Head of Train Control Systems at ORR, explains his role in helping revise the signal-sighting standard.
ORR's Giles Turner recalls his experience attending the site of the 1999 Ladbroke Grove rail collision, which claimed the lives of 31 people, with many hundreds injured, a few days after the accident.