Agreed amendments to contracts in 2024 (section 22)
15 October 2024
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Our decisions on amendments to contracts where Network Rail and the train operator were in agreement.
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Improving assisted travel
15 October 2024
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Our Accessible Travel Policy guidance for train and station operators sets out the commitments they must include in their policies for helping older and disabled people to travel by rail.
ORR Board: register of interests
11 October 2024
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The register of interests of ORR Board and Executive team members is reviewed annually and updated each time an individual's interests change.
Passenger rolling stock: why has average age decreased?
11 October 2024
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We explain what factors influence changes in the average age of rolling stock.
The legal framework for level crossings
10 October 2024
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Level crossings are an interface between the highway and railway, where the different parties involved have responsibilities.
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.
Health and safety prosecutions
9 October 2024
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Details of ORR health and safety prosecutions resulting in conviction since 1 April 2006.
Northern Ireland regulation
4 October 2024
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Information on ORR roles in Northern Ireland
Ladbroke Grove - 25 years on: 'A critical seven-year period in my career'
4 October 2024
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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.
Ladbroke Grove - 25 years on: 'This was an era-defining event'
3 October 2024
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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.