The Office of Rail Regulation is the independent safety and economic regulator for Britain's railways.

Accompanying consultants papers

The following documents are available for download as Adobe Acrobat PDF files:

10 January 2001

Usage Costs - Booz Allen & Hamilton (published 27 October 2000)

16 August 2000

Costs of substitute bus services (PDF file) - Halcrow Fox

10 August 2000

Response to Railtrack's May 2000 Cost Submission (PDF file) - Booz-Allen & Hamilton

3 August 2000

Analysis of responses to review of Railtrack efficiency (PDF file) - Europe Economics

27 July 2000

Review of overseas railway efficiency (PDF file) - NERA

27 July 2000

The efficiency growth assumption for Railtrack in the 2001-06 price control period (PDF file) - Horton 4 Consulting

27 July 2000

Assessment of capacity charges (PDF file) - Symonds

July 2000

Re-calibration of the operational performance regime (PDF file) - KPMG

June 2000

West Coast Route Modernisation - Booz Allen report to Office of the Rail Regulator (PDF file)

June 2000

Railtrack's NMS2000 - Review of the IOS Programme at Build 3 - Booz Allen report to Office of the Rail Regulator (PDF file).  Appendix E to above document is confidential.

February 2000

Review of the regulated station access regime, Appendices 1-3, Appendix 4, Appendix 5 - Lambert Smith Hampton report to the Office of the Rail Regulator (PDF file)

January 2000

An economic analysis of the freight market - Report to the Office of the Rail Regulator by NERA - (Executive Summary only) (PDF file)

10 January 2000

Responses to the Regulator's draft conclusions - Booz Allen & Hamilton (published 27 October 2000)

December 1999

Railtrack property forecasts: Reviewing the baseline for the property allowance scheme by DTZ Pieda Consulting

December 1999

Railtrack's expenditure needs 2001-2006 by Booz Allen & Hamilton

9 December 1999

Review of Railtrack efficiency by Europe Economics

25 November 1999

Railtrack's performance in the control period 1995-2001 by Booz Allen & Hamilton

November 1999

Railway infrastructure cost causation: A report to the Rail Regulator by Booz Allen and Hamilton

June 1999

Property allowance scheme and associated regulatory framework by DTZ Pieda

13 April 1999

Railtracks performance in the control period 1995-2001 by Booz Allen and Hamilton

April 1999

Station performance incentive and abatement of charges by Lambert Smith Hampton