Rail professionals

Welcome to ORR's May Newsletter.

By Catherine Williams, Deputy Director, Railway Markets and Economics.

The Office of Rail and Road ("ORR") and Autorité de Régulation des Activités Ferroviaires et Routières ("Arafer") are the responsible bodies for the regulation of the Channel Fixed Link. Both organisations have published today their opinions on Eurotunnel's 2019 Network Statement.

South Devon Railway Trust has today been fined £40,000 by Newton Abbot Magistrates' Court after they admitted putting passengers at risk by failing to adequately bar entry to a toilet cubicle which was missing its floor.

Network Rail was today found guilty of one offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

Welcome to ORR's April Newsletter.

BAM Nuttall and McNealy Brown were fined £900,000 and £65,000 respectively after they admitted failing to put proper procedures and safeguards in place to prevent painter Paul Welstead falling through a ceiling into a passenger waiting room.