Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3)
6 October 2025
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Helping the rail industry to achieve health and safety excellence.
Guidance
Health and safety by design
1 September 2025
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Health and safety by design aims to eliminate or reduce risks through identifying potential risks at the design stage and taking steps to reduce or eliminate them.
Monitoring reporting guidelines for National Highways and template statements
22 July 2025
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Our monitoring reporting guidelines set out the information that National Highways is required to provide to us through performance monitoring templates, which once completed by National Highways, become annual performance monitoring statements.
Access charging
16 April 2025
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Access charges framework for the national rail network.
Complaints handling procedures
19 March 2025
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Information on complaints handling procedures for train and station operators.
Template station and depot documentation
24 January 2025
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This page is intended to be used as a quick reference for all ORR-issued template documentation relating to station and depot access, including access agreements, access conditions, annexes, amending documents and amending agreements.
European derived railway safety legislation
16 December 2024
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This page gives an overview of how European railway safety legislation has been retained in the UK.
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.
Access charging framework for use of Network Rail infrastructure: user guide
25 September 2024
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An overview of the main regulated charges paid by train operators in control period 7 (CP7) for accessing the part of the GB rail network that is owned and operated by Network Rail.
Summary guidance on rail open access applications
12 September 2024
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A consultation on summary guidance for the rail industry on open access applications. The guidance also introduces a routine approach to monetising costs and benefits, and removes the benchmarking stage of the Not Primarily Abstractive Test (NPA).