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In this section you will find details of the latest news, events and activities that the ORR has been involved in or concerned with recently.

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The items below have been added to this website in the past three months. Use the left-hand navigation to access earlier material under 'Publications' or use the 'Search' field above to search for items added in previous months (for example 'August 2006').

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July 2008

24 July Statutory Notice - Licence exemption application by Electro-Motive Services International Limited
23 July Track access applications - Response by Network Rail to National Express East Coast Section 17 and 23rd SA
23 July Consolidated agreement - London Overground Railway Operations Ltd
22 July Note of C&P IWG meeting 26 June 2008
22 July Track access other decisions: Crossrail TAO directions
22 July Track access decisions: First Capital Connect 10th & 20th SA GA and Chiltern Railways 50th SA GA
21 July Consultation - Regulating Britain's railways in 2009-14
21 July Press notice - Rail regulator consults on forward strategy and says industry needs to step up pace of long-term planning 
21 July Consultation - Investment framework guidance on station charges
21 July Track access decision: East Midlands Trains 3rd SA
18 July PR08 - Procedural approach to conducting an interim review in CP4
18 July PR08 - Consultation - draft Schedules 7 and 8 of track access contracts
18 July PR08 - Licence review - consultation on financial conditions
18 July Conclusions: ORR criteria for approval of changes to the Delay Attribution Guide
17 July Improvement notice - Grand Central Railway Company Ltd
16 July ORR's further letter to the industry on East Coast Main Line
16 July West Coast related application - Freightliner Heavy Haul 3rd SA
14 July Section 17 application - Hull Trains - responses from Department for Transport and London TravelWatch
14 July Statutory notice: The Deeside Railway Company Limited
14 July Track access applications: Responses to Hull Trains 25th SA from Network Rail and Hull Trains
11 July Tramway technical guidance notes: 2. Pedestrian safety
11 July

Consultation: Periodic review 2008: Train operator compensation from possessions – consultation on changes to the compensation regime for freight operators, franchise passenger operators access charge supplements and part G of the network code.

Appendices to above

11 July West Coast application - Response to GB Railfreight 1st SA by EWS
11 July Consolidated agreement - Kirst/Keolis TransPennine Express
11 July A guide to the level crossing order submissions - Issue 2
11 July Joint Regulator meeting minutes for 27 March 2008
10 July PR08 - Consultant's report on Technical Support for Shadow Running of Compensation Regime for Freight Operators
10 July

PR08 - Further industry recommendations on possessions compensation

9 July Land disposal decision: Cambridge station
9 July Vacancy - Executive stations & depots
8 July Track access application: XC Trains 3rd SA
8 July Improvement notice: Network Rail - Wassicks Level Crossing
8 July New section: ORR’s role in handling RAIB recommendations
7 July PR08 - Consultants reports: Strategic Business Plan – CP4 Route 18 Enhancement Projects Final Review
4 July PR08: Consultation on network availability and the seven day railway
4 July Safety research document: Review of RAIB investigations and recommendations 2007 - HSL Report commissioned by ORR, published 2008
3 July Revised web pages: Review of criteria and procedures for approval of track access contracts, Access for passenger trains and Access for freight trains
2 July Improvement notices - 3 for Network Rail
1 July Track access application: East Midlands Trains 3rd SA
1 July Decision on Redhill land disposal
1 July Updated tables to Trespass, Vandalism, Assaults on railway employees and Fatal injuries to railway employees
1 July Statutory notice - Wealden Railway Company Limited
1 July Hull Trains (Harrogate services) - Responses from EWS, Grand Union, Northern, NXEC and WYPTE
1 July Grand Northern Section 17 application - Bradford to Euston: Responses from GMPTE and London Midland

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June 2008

30 June Appeals under the network code - ORR's Interim Order for all possessions after Week 21 and order to adjourn hearing
30 June Track access decisions: Advenza Freight 2nd SA; Rail Express Systems 6th SA; West Coast Railway Co 4th SA; West Coast Trains 34th SA; and DRS 2nd SA
27 June East Midlands Trains Ltd Section 17 application for a station access contract - Directions, reasons document and directed contract
26 June Railway safety statistical report survey
26 June Press notice - ORR publishes annual report
26 June Press notice - ORR publishes railway safety statistical annual report
26 June Land disposal - Decision on High Meads loop line, Stratford, and former exchange station, Salford
26 June First ScotRail Limited track access consolidated agreement
25 June Track access: West Coast Railway Co Ltd Section 22 (3rd SA) decision
24 June Consultation: Request for ratification of decision to close Abercynon North Station
24 June Track access: NXEC Trains Ltd Section 22a (23rd SA) application
24 June Track access: NXEC Trains Ltd Section 17 application
24 June Track access: responses to Grand Northern (Bradford-Euston) Section 17 application
23 June ORR Board minutes - 20 May 2008
23 June Consolidated agreement: XC Trains Ltd redacted version at 16 May 2008 up to and including 2nd supplemental agreement
23 June Track access: Network Rail response to Hull Trains (Harrogate services) Section 17 application
23 June Land disposal - Decision on Stanton-by-Dale, Derbyshire
20 June Land disposal - Decision on Aylesbury Vale
20 June Track access decisions - Gatwick Express 13th SA and First Greater Western 35th SA GA 
20 June Consolidated agreement: c2c rail
20 June Track access applications - Hull Trains 25th and NXEC 22nd SA
19 June Track access decisions - First Capital Connect 19th SA and New Southern Railway 24th SG SA
19 June Press notice: ORR chairman calls on rail industry to develop a new long-term vision and long-term plans
19 June Presentation to IEA by Chris Bolt
18 June Memorandum of understanding between ORR and the Health and Safety Executive, Northern Ireland relating to railway safety in Northern Ireland
18 June Appeal by NRIL against TTP210 - further correspondence
18 June West Coast Trains new TAC - GB Railfreight application and EWS response
18 June Periodic review 2008: Draft determinations - Price lists
17 June West Coast Trains new TAC - Greater Manchester PTE response
16 June Safety research -  Evaluation of the UK Rail Sector Initial Fatigue & Risk Index Thresholds: Identifying Good Practice by Health & Safety Laboratory
16 June Consolidated agreements: First Capital Connect and First Greater Western
16 June Consultation on a modification to the Station Access Conditions, the Independent Station Access Conditions and the Stations Code - Track litter
12 June Consolidated agreements: Merseyrail Electrics 2002 Limited
11 June Track access decisions: Hull Trains Section 22 24th SA
11 June Track access decisions: Grand Central Railway Company Section 22 8th and 10th SA
11 June Track access application: New Southern Railway Ltd Section 22 24th SG SA
11 June Land disposal notice: Inverkip, Renfrewshire
11 June Press notice - ORR welcomes the Law Commission decision on level crossing legislation
10 June Consultation - EWS Regulation 29 appeal regarding HS1
5 June Appeals - Network Rail Infrastructure Limited against Timetabling Panel determination TTP210
5 June Track access decision - EWS 13th SA
5 June Report for PR08 by Ove Arup
5 June Press notice - ORR announces a package of measures to improve railway services
5 June Press notice - ORR announces a package of measures to improve railway services in Scotland
5 June

Publication - Periodic review 2008 - Draft determinations (Summary document) (at a glance leaflet)
5 June Review of the Network Rail licence: consultation
5 June Publication - Network Rail Monitor - Quarter 4
5 June Publication - National Rail Review - Quarter 4
4 June Further responses to West Coast Trains section 18 application
4 June

Four Improvement notices served on Network Rail

4 June New page - International best practice studies
4 June Reports for PR08 by Institute for Transport Studies, First Economics and Steer Davis Gleave
4 June Track access decision - XC Trains 2nd SA
3 June Responses to West Coast Trains section 18 application
3 June Track access decision - North York Moors Railway Enterprises PLC 3rd SA
3 June Reports for PR08 by Cambridge Economic Policy Assoc, Ernst & Young, Oxera,  Nichols, Ian Smith, and Winder Phillips Assoc
3 June Replacement document - The Worker Involvement Best Practice guidance
3 June Reports for PR08 by AMCL, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates, Halcrow, Ian Smith, & Railkonsult
2 June Reports for PR08 by Halcrow and Oxera
2 June Letter on South London Route utilisation strategy
2 June Track access applications - Responses to Grand Northern - Bradford to Kings Cross
2 June Railway Industry Association - Further response re input prices
2 June Vacancy - Web Manager, London

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May 2008

30 May Track access application - Hull Trains (Harrogate services)
30 May Press notice - Amey Rail Ltd fined £20,000 over death of track worker
30 May Asset Register - rewrite of page and additional documentation
30 May Responses to West Coast TAC from Warwickshire CC and XC Trains
30 May Conclusions to consultation on use quota use period
30 May Track access decisions - c2c 35th SA GA, XC Trains 1st SA GA, First Greater Western 34th SA GA and London Eastern Railway 21st SA
29 May Track access decisions - EWS 9th SA and First Capital Connect 18th SA GA
28 May Track access application - DRS 6th Supplemental Agreement
27 May Board minutes for 29 April 2008
27 May Best practice study - Summary report - During 2007 ORR conducted a programme of international fact-finding visits to railway administrations in Europe, North America and Australia. This study tour forms part of our work on the 2008 Periodic Review (PR08),
23 May Grand Northern Railway Company Limited proposed track access contract (Bradford-Euston)
22 May Land disposal - Whitchurch Station, Shropshire: consent notice and decision document
22 May Consultation responses for the north London railway track access option
22 May First Greater Western Ltd 33rd approved Supplemental Agreement
19 May Revised Register of Board members interests
19 May Track access decisions - Arriva Trains Wales 23rd SA, First Capital Connect 13th SA and The Chiltern Railway Company 45th SA
16 May Track access decision - First Greater Western 25th, Northern Rail 19th and First/Keolis Transpennine Express 21st SAs
16 May Track access decision - New Southern Railway 21st SA
16 May Consultation: National Rail standards regimes: seeking views
16 May Press notice: ORR seeks views on national rail standards regimes
16 May Improvement notice issued to Network Rail
15 May Board minutes for 18 March 2008
15 May Track access decision - London & South Eastern Railway Ltd 3rd SA
15 May Press notice: ORR marks 30 years of health and safety advice from the Railway Industry Advisory Committee
15 May Responses to Periodic Review 2008: Train Operator Compensation from Possessions - consultation on changes to the compensation regime for passenger operators - Additional responses from Govia, Stagecoach, Freightliner and Hull Trains
14 May Press notice - ORR welcomes Ian Prosser as Director of Railway Safety
14 May Track access decision - London & Birmingham Railway Ltd 4th SA and FirstScotRail 33rd SA
14 May Depots Code - Outcome
13 May Prosecutions - Elec-Trac, GT Railway Maintenance, Balfour Beatty Rail Projects
13 May Track access decision - London & South Eastern Railway 4th SA
13 May Tramway Technical guidance notes: new section - "Design requirements for street track"
13 May West Coast Route Modernisation - Network Rail Delivery Plan and ORR letter accepting compliance
12 May Statutory notices relating to Bridgen group of companies
12 May Investment Framework - ORR conclusions on our review of the approach to third party investments
12 May Track access decision Section 18 - West Coast Railway Co Ltd
12 May Track access decisions - London Overground Railway Operations Ltd 3rd SA and London Eastern Railway 20th SA
12 May Press notice: Three railway companies fined £600,000 after workers injured in electrical accident
9 May TPWS Exemption certificates re testing trains
9 May Responses to Periodic Review 2008: Train Operator Compensation from Possessions - consultation on changes to the compensation regime for passenger operators
9 May Press notice - ORR confirms £14m penalty for Network Rail
9 May Responses to proposed fine for Network Rail's new year overrun
8 May Track access decisions - Stagecoach SW Trains 5th SA
8 May Track access applications - Grand Central 7th - Comments from Grand Central
7 May Track access applications - London Eastern Railway 21st SA
7 May Track access decisions - First Greater Western 32nd SA
7 May Track access Section 18 application by - West Coast Railway Co - "Jacobite" service
6 May Track access decisions - Chiltern 41st, 47th & 48th SA and Stagecoach SW Trains 19th SA
2 May Press notice - Rail regulator accepts Network Rail’s West Coast plan but warns on delivery
2 May Consultation letter - Proposals to amend the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority for Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems) Regulations 2006
2 May Consultation letter - Review of obstacles to third party investment
1 May Land disposal - Decision on Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
1 May Track access applications - First Great Western 25th SA and First/Keolis Transpennine Express 21st SA
1 May Track access decisions - Grand Central 6th SA
1 May Vacancy - Team Administrator, Glasgow, Scotland

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