Office of Rail and Road March 2025 newsletter
4 March 2025
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Annual assessments of Network Rail
11 February 2025
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These documents are part of how we hold Network Rail to account.
Monitoring Network Rail's performance
3 February 2025
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We monitor performance through analysis of regular reports from Network Rail.
Review of the costs and benefits of safety interventions
31 January 2025
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As the joint safety and economic regulator for Britain’s railway, we are reviewing how costs and benefits are assessed for safety initiatives, and whether reasonable practicability is systematically tested by duty holders.
Benchmarking Network Rail's costs
5 December 2024
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ORR's latest analysis provides an important check on the costs of delivering rail infrastructure maintenance and renewals.
Competition Act 1998
10 October 2024
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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.
Getting value for money on the £67bn spent on Britain’s railway infrastructure
1 October 2024
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In the five years between April 2019 to 31 March 2024, Control Period 6, Network Rail spent £67.4 billion (2023-24 prices), to operate, maintain, renew and enhance the national rail infrastructure in Great Britain.
Regulator to cut charges passenger and freight trains pay to use HS1
30 September 2024
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ORR has proposed lower charges for passenger trains which use the High Speed 1 line from London St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel, and halving charges to freight, in its Draft Determination of HS1 Ltd’s spending plans, published today.
Review of the access charges framework for CP8
25 September 2024
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Our review of the access charges framework for the national rail network.
Office of Rail and Road September 2024 newsletter
30 August 2024
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Hello and welcome to the September newsletter Shortly after our last newsletter, and our annual Year in Rail event in July, our focus shifted to highways with the publication of both our Annual Assessment and also our investigation into National Highways compliance with its licence and delivery of RIS2. Our Annual Assessment considers how National Highways has progressed over the twelve months to