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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has today set out its final determination of Network Rail Scotland’s £4.6bn plan to deliver a safe and customer focussed railway in the five years from April 2024, known as Control Period 7 (CP7).

Network Rail has been issued with an improvement notice by the Office of Rail and Road for London’s Euston Station, where the company has failed to put in effective measures to prevent risks to passengers and others during instances of surges and overcrowding.

As National Highways’ monitor, ORR holds the company to account for delivering the targets set out in the second road investment strategy (RIS2). This includes its key performance indicator target on safety to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) on the strategic road network (SRN) by 50% by the end of 2025, compared to the 2005-2009 average baseline.

National Highways has consistently met its target of 96.2% of road surfaces on motorways and major A-roads being in ‘good condition’ and not requiring further investigation for maintenance. However, performance varies across National Highways’ regions.

Railway signalling systems are fundamental to the safe and efficient operation of modern railways.

In this episode, we take a look at the journey taken by a trainee inspector.

Office of Rail and Road October 2023 newsletter

Good stakeholder engagement - the practice of talking to, listening to, and working with those involved in, or affected by, an organisation's activities - is essential, especially for an organisation like Network Rail which is tasked with maintaining Britain's railways infrastructure.

Today, we’ve published our April 2022 to March 2023 Annual Efficiency and Finance Assessment of Network Rail.

Taking place at The NEC in Birmingham on 18 and 19 October, Highways UK brings together the people responsible for managing, maintaining, and future-proofing the nation's road networks. Visit us at stand 106 to learn more about who we are and what we do, how we hold National Highways to account, and our role in developing the next road investment strategy.