Concordat between the Strategic Rail Authority and the Office of the Rail Regulator - 7 March
The Possessions Review: Provisional conclusions on the Schedule 4 incentive structure - 20 December
Establishment of a Rail Industry Safety Body - a consultation document 20 December
Virgin fares cases (Competition Act 1998)
Vehicle and Route Acceptance complaint by Bombardier and Alstom Final Conclusions - a consultation document - 6th December
Land disposal by Railtrack PLC: The regulatory arrangements (attachment to chapter 3 - maps A-G and H-M) - 19th November
Review of freight charging policy : final conclusions - 18 Ocober
Station access regime: Maintenance and repair, liability and enforcement - a technical consultation document - 6 September
Notice of proposed modification to Railtrack's network licence: Disposal of land (attachment to Appendix B - maps A-G and H-M) - 3 August
The possessions review - an initial consultation - 31July
Operational plan 2001-2004 - 17 July
Regulators statement on joint working - 11 July
Modifications to Railtrack's ne twork licence: Dependent persons - 18 June
Accountability of Railtrack - 12 June
Model clauses for track access agreements: Access rights and moderation of competition - 1 June
Notice of proposed modifications to Railtrack's network licence: Dependent persons - 10 May
Adjustment to Railtrac ks regulatory asset base - 30 April
Draft operational plan 2001/2004 - 30 April
Moderation of competition - an interim statement from the Regulator - 17 April
Periodic review of track access charges - Revised Schedules 4, 7 and 8 - 6 April
Review of freight charging policy: provisional conclusions - 5 April
Vehicle and route acceptance: Complaint by ADtranz and ALSTOM (conclusions document), Annex A, Annex B, Annex C and Annex D - 30 March
Vehicle and route acceptance procedures: a consultation document, Appendix A - Proposal for change and Appendix B - Railtrack & CrossCountry Trains agreement - 22 March
Notice of proposed modifications to Railtrack's network licence: Asset register - 20 March
Notice of proposed modifications to Railtrack's network licence: Reporter, regulatory accounts and annual return - 8 March
Regulator's conclusions on the proposed 15th supplemental agreement to the track access agreement between Railtrack PLC and CrossCountry Trains Limited - 16 February
Revised schedules 4, 7 and 8 to the Periodic Review Volume II (issued on 28 October 2000) - 23 January
Statement on the Implications of Hatfield - 15 January

Documents published in 2000

Service delivery agreement in association with HM Treasury - 3 November
Notice of modification to Condition 3 of Railtrack's network licence - 31 October
Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges Volume II - 27 October
Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges - Final conclusions - 23 October
Consultation on proposed modifications to Railtrack's network licence: disposal of assets and ring fencing - 28 September
Consultation on proposed modifications to Railtrack's network licence - 14 September: (Footnotes)
Review of freight charging policy: emerging views on key issues - 31 August
National survey of rail freight users - Summary of results - 10 August
Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Capacity charges - a technical consultation document - 31 July
Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Draft conclusions Volume 1 (Acrobat PDF document) - 27 July
Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Draft conclusions Volume 2 (Acrobat PDF document) - 27 July
Model Clauses for Track access agreements: Provisional conclusions together with Annex 2: Draft track access agreement and Part 1 of Network Code and Draft Network Code: Part 1 (Acrobat PDF documents) - 25 July - Click here for Schedule 5 mentioned in paragraph 3.11.
Proposed modifications to Condition 3 of Railtrack's network licence and to other operator licences (Adobe PDF format) - 30 June
Operational Plan 2000-2001 (Adobe PDF format) - 23 June
The periodic review of Railtrack’s access charges : West Coast Route Modernisation (Acrobat PDF document) - 20 June
The periodic review of Railtrack’s access charges : Incremental outputs technical consultation (Acrobat PDF document) - 12 June
The periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Provisional conclusions on station charges and Consultation on the station access regime (Acrobat PDF document) - 2 June
Train & Station Services for Disabled Passengers - a consultation document - 31 May
Review of Freight Charging Policy - A consultation document - 26 May (Adobe Acrobat PDF document)
Railway Land Sale - 22 May (Acrobat PDF document)
West Coast Main Line - Final Order against Railtrack PLC (Adobe PDF format) - 8 May
Model clauses for track access agreements (Adobe PDF format) - 19 April
The periodic review of Railtrack’s access charges: Provisional conclusions on the incentive framework
(Acrobat PDF format) - 14 April
Draft Operational Plan 2000-2001 (Adobe PDF format) - 12 April
West Coast Main Line - Modified Draft Final Order against Railtrack PLC (Adobe PDF format) - 27 March
Model clauses for track access agreements - a consultation document - 7 January

Documents published in 1999

Documents published in 1998

Documents published in 1997

Consultants papers

6 December 2001 - Third report on behalf of the ORR on the complaint of ADtranz and Alstom
30 November 2001 - Analysing allegedly excessive prices charged by train operating companies - NERA
30 November 2001 - Regulatory approaches to cost allocation - NERA
10 Jan 2001 - Review of responses to draft conclusions - Booz Allen & Hamilton
10 Jan 2001 - Usage Costs - Booz Allen & Hamilton
15 Nov 2000 - TTCI Rail Failure Assessment in the UK - as Acrobat PDF file
27 Jul 2000 - Assessment of capacity charges - Symonds Group
27 Jul 2000 - Response to Railtrack's May 2000 cost submission - Booz Allen & Hamilton
27 Jul 2000 - Analysis of responses to review of Railtrack efficiency - Europe Economics
27 Jul 2000 - Review of overseas railway efficiency - NERA
27 Jul 2000 - The efficiency growth assumption for Railtrack in the 2001-06 price control period - Horton 4 Consulting
27 Jul 2000 - Assessment of capacity charges - Symonds
27 Jul 2000 - Costs of substitute bus services - Halcrow Fox
11 Jul 2000 - WCRM Joint Cost Assessment Overview Paper
Jul 2000 - Re-calibration of the operational performance regime - KPMG (Acrobat PDF document)
Jun 2000 - West Coast Route Modernisation - Booz Allen report to Office of the Rail Regulator (Acrobat PDF document)
Jun 2000 - Railtrack's NMS2000 - Review of the IOS Programme at Build 3 - Booz Allen report to Office of the Rail Regulator (Acrobat PDF document). Appendix E to above document is confidential.
Jun 2000 - Station Access Regime, Appendices 1-3, Appendix 4, Appendix 5 - Lambert Smith Hampton report to the Office of the Rail Regulator (Acrobat PDF documents)
14 April 2000 - An economic analysis of the freight market - Report to the Office of the Rail Regulator by NERA (Executive Summary only) (Adobe PDF format)
14 Dec 1999 - Railtrack Property Forecasts - Reviewing the baseline for the Property Allowance Scheme by DTZ Pieda Consulting
Dec 1999 - Railtrack's Expenditure Needs 2001-2006 by Booz Allen & Hamilton
9 Dec 1999 - Review of Railtrack Efficiency by Europe Economics
25 Nov 1999 - Railtrack's performance in the Control Period 1995-2001by Booz Allen & Hamilton - 25 November 1999
Nov 1999 - Railway Infrastructure Cost Causation: a report to the Rail Regulator by Booz Allen and Hamilton
Jun 1999 - Property allowance scheme & associated regulatory framework by DTZ Pieda
13 April 1999 - Railtrack’s performance in the control period 1995-2001 by Booz Allen and Hamilton
Apr 1999 - Station Performance Incentive and Abatement of Charges by Lambert Smith Hampton

ORR Speeches

Why Rail Regulation is now fit for purpose speech to Waterfront conference, Rail Regulation: Getting it Right - 8 October 2002
Economic regulation in the rail industry - impact of the Enterprise Bill - speech by Tim Martin, Chief Economist
Local outputs and model clauses - the regulatory perspective - Local output conference, Birmingham - 23 September 2002
The future role of the Rail Regulator speech to the National Rail Conference 2002 - Moving forward: The Strategic Plan - 23 January 2002
Creating an investment-friendly environment Tom Winsor's speech to theHerbert Smith conference on 'Investing in rail' - 11 July 2001
Positively regulating the railway industry Tom Winsor's speech to the Institute of Economic Affairs conference on 'The future of UK rail' - 26 June 2001
The regulatory framework - Speech by Tom Winsor at Institution of Electrical Engineers - 12 June 2001
New priorities for Railtrack - Speech by Tom Winsor to Waterfront Conference on Safe growth on the railways - 29 March 2001
Regulation - the policy framework - Regulator's speech to IPPR conference 'Rail renaissance - the future of Britain's railways'
Agenda for the regulation of the rail industry Regulator's speech to The Waterfront - 'Expanding the railways' conference - 31 January 2001
Issues in rail regulationRegulator's speech to Centre for Regulated Industries - 24 October 2000
Strategies for rail regulation Rail Regulator's speech to The Railway Forum - 18 September 2000
Rail Regulation the next stage - a speech to the Railway Study Association - 12 April 2000
The Developing Regulatory Agenda Rail Regulator's speech to the members of the Scottish Parliament - 1 November 1999
Financing risk - what financing risk? Rail Regulator's speech to the Financing UK Rail Services Conference - 29 October 1999
The New Regulatory Agenda - Tom Winsor's speech to The Railway Forum Conference - 9 July 1999
Defining a Competitive Future for the Utility Market: A View from a UK Regulator - Chris Bolt's speech to The Strategic Planning Society Conference "Where are the Utilities Going Next?"
The Impact of a Regulatory Framework on the Growth of the Rail Freight Market. European Freight Congress
Regulating a Privatised Rail Industry: Lessons from UK Experience - Chris Bolt - Eurorail '99 Congress
Priorities For Rail -The Rail Regulator's View - Regulators speech at "Towards an Accessible Railway" seminar
Regulator's speech to Rail Freight 98'
OXERA/GPC Seminar on Utility Regulation - Chris Bolt, Chief Economic Adviser, Office of the Rail Regulator - 19 May 1998
The Oxford Law Colloquium - Transparency, Consistency and Predictability as Regulatory Objectives - John Swift QC, St Johns College, Oxford - 25 March 1998
UK Competition Bill Seminar - The Competition Bill - A Regulator's View - 21 November 1997
Rail Industry Director's Forum - Year 2000 - The Regulatory Perspective - 18 November 1997
Regulation of Utilities: the Revolution and the Rule of Law - John Swift QC - The Utility Congress - Brighton - 28 October 1997
The Regulator’s speech to the ACTO conference - 7 October 1997
Meeting the Challenge of Impartial Ticket Retailing - 18 June 1997
Regulating the Railway in the Public Interest - 11 June 1997
Speech to Rail Freight Conference '97' - 4/6/97
Regulation of the Railways in Great Britain: 1993-1997-2000+ : 13 March 1997
Speech to the forum on Year 2000 - 25 March 1997

ORR Information Papers

Information Paper Four - Closure of parts of stations (Now out-of-date)
Information Paper Three - Regulating for Rail Freight Growth
Information Paper Two - Railway Closures (Now out-of-date)
Information Paper One - Using Cycles in Conjunction with Trains (Now out-of-date)

ORR Annual Reports

Annual Report 2001 - 2002 (PDF colour version with pictures)
Annual Report 2001 - 2002 (HTML version)
Annual Report 2000 - 2001 (PDF colour version with pictures)
Annual Report 2000 - 2001 (text only version)
Annual Report 1999 - 2000
Annual Report 1998-99 (with images)
Annual Report 1998-99 (Text only version)
ORR Annual Report 1997/98
ORR Annual Report 1996/97

Seminars and hearings

21 May 2002 - Transcript of Second Industry Conference on the Establishment of a Rail Industry Safety Body held on 9 May 2002 at Thistle Hotel, London W1
13 May 2002 - Transcript of EWS Section 17 application hearing of 30 April 2002
10 January 2001 - Railtrack presentation to final periodic hearing on Tuesday, 12 September 2000
10 January 2001 - Transcript of final hearing into Periodic Review held on Tuesday, 12 September 2000
15 November 2000 - Transcript of industry seminar on model clauses for track access agreements - The liability regime held on 20 October 2000
31 July 2000 - Railtrack's presentation to periodic review hearing on 28 June 2000
28 July 2000 - Proceedings at a periodic review hearing with Railtrack on 28 June 2000
5 July 2000 - Model clauses for track access agreements - Final transcripts of the second industry seminar held on 3 May and 4 May at London House
10 May 2000 - Model clauses for track access agreements - Draft transcripts of the second industry seminar held on 3 and 4 May at London House
27 April 2000 - Proceedings of Workshop 5 on Model Clauses and Summary of responses to Model Clauses consultation document
3 April 2000 - Proceedings of Workshop 4 on Model Clauses
23 March 2000 - Proceedings of Workshop 3 on Model Clauses
2 March 2000 - The transcript of the Rail Regulator's industry seminar in relation to the Regulator’s consultation document on model clauses
16 February 2000 - Transcript of Regulator's formal discussion with Railtrack on their response to Model Clauses
28 February 2000 - Train Operator Seminar into Incentive Framework for Track Access Charges
17 February 2000 - Seminar in relation to Regulator's consultation document on Model Clauses
30 July 1998 - Towards an Accessible Railway
29 April 1998 - Structure of Rail Track Access Charges: ORR and Railtrack seminar

Announcements and non-ORR documents

2 December 2002 - St Pancras station section 17 application - further material from Midland Mainline and LCR
29 November - Land disposal decisions - Fratton and Woodley
27 November - St Pancras station section 17 application - further material from LCR
22 November - Responses to consultation on Stations incremental output statements (IOS) interim review
22 November - Responses to consultation on London St Pancras Section 17 application
22 October - Station IOS consultation responses
26 September - Guidance to the Rail Regulator (a Department for Transport document)
24 September - Land disposal decisions - Rufford & Clipstone to Hove
2 August - EWS - Railtrack Track Access Agreement as directed by the Regulator on 23 May and Schedule 5 Access Rights
29 July - Rail Industry Safety Body - letters between Bill Callaghan (Chairman, HSC) and Tom Winsor
10 July - Judgment: Approved by the Court for Handing down (subject to editorial corrections)
5 July - Land disposal decision documents for Birkenhead, Borehamwood and Stone
10 June - Passenger section 17 applications
27 May - Land disposal consultations for Railtrack property at East Kilbride, Henley-in-Arden, Rufford & Clipstone and Bristol East; also decision documents on Bristol Parkway, Cardiff, Plymouth and Preston
27 May - The new Railway Industry Safety Body - proposal from the non-executive directors of Railway Safety - slide presentation 9 May 2002 by Sir David Davies
16 May - Rail Industry Safety Board - Key working documents
25 April - Responses to consultation on EWS Section 17 application
16 April 2002 - Responses to Rail Industry Safety Body consultation
23 November 2001 - Responses to Station access regime: Maintenance and repair, liability and enforcement - 6 September 2001
19 November 2001 - Responses to Possessions Review of 31 July 2001
29 October 2001 - Responses to Review of freight charging policy - provisional conclusions of 5 April 2001
5 September 2001 - Responses to draft operational plan 2001-2004 of 30 April 2001
22 August 2001 - Responses to Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Provisional conclusions on station charges and consultation on the station access regime document of 2 June 2000
21 August 2001 - Responses to Notice of proposed modifications to Railtrack's network licence: Reporter, regulatory accounts and annual return of 8 March 2001
17 August 2001 - Responses to Notice of proposed modification to Railtrack's network licence: Asset register of 20 March 2001
15 August 2001 - Responses to Model clauses for Track access agreements: Access rights and moderation of competition of 1 June 2001
14 August 2001 - Further responses to Freight charging policy - consultation on costs of 30 November 2000
8 August 2001 - Responses to Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Capacity charges of July 2000
27 July 2001 - Responses to Modifications to Railtrack's network licence: Dependent persons
15 July 2001 - Revised licences added to Public Register
5 July 2001 - Notices added to Public Register
5 May 2001 - Responses to Liability
20 February 2001 - Responses to Proposed modification to Railtrack's network licence: Disposal of assets and ring-fencing of 28 September 2000
7 February 2001 - Responses to Periodic Review of Railtrack's access charges - Draft Conclusions of July 2000
29 January 2001 - Responses to Notification of modifications to Railtrack's network licence: Dependent persons
29 January 2001 - Responses to Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Station charges and consultation of the station access regime
16 January 2001 - Responses to Proposed modifications to Railtrack's network licence: Asset Register & Dealings with Dependents
11 January 2001 - Railtrack's Supplementary Network Management Statement
19 December 2000 - Responses to Model Clauses - Schedule 5
18 December 2000 - Railtrack's response to Freight charging policy - consultation on costs
16 November 2000 - Responses to Proposed modifications to Condition 3 of Railtrack's network licence and to other operator licences - 30 June 2000
15 November 2000 - Transcript of industry seminar in relation to Model clauses for track access agreements - the liability regime
15 November 2000 - TTCI Rail Failure Assessment in the UK - as Acrobat PDF file
16 October 2000 - Responses to consultation on Freight Charging Policy
16 October 2000 - Transcript of presentation at ATOC on Recalibration of the Rail Operational Performance Regime: ORR held on 4 September 2000
4 September 2000- Responses to Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Incremental outputs technical conclusion document of 15 October 1999
4 September 2000 - Responses to Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Incentive framework document of 14 April 2000
4 September 2000 - Responses to Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Incentive framework document of 15 October 1999
7 Aug - Responses to Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Usage charges document - 22 November 1999
18 July - Responses toPeriodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Provisional conclusions on revenue requirement
11 July - Transcript of hearing of Adtranz/Alstom Complaint
7 July - Responses to draft Operational Plan 2000-2001
5 July 2000 - Responses to Periodic review of Railtrack's access charges: Electricity for traction document - 17 September 1999
27 June 2000 - Comments on the transcript of the West Coast Route Modernisation hearing of 11 May
22 May 2000 - Responses to West Coast Main Line - draft final order of 5 November 1999
22 Oct 2000 - Railway land sale
4 May 2000 - Responses to West Coast Main Line - Modified draft final order against Railtrack PLC of 27 March
April 2000 - Responses to CrossCountry consultation on a revised track access agreement with Railtrack
17 March - The first of the Regulator's explanatory guides on how Access contract approval procedures should be followed
14 March - Proceedings of Workshops 1 and 2 on Model Clauses
14 March - Bullet points from Rail Regulator's speech at the seminar to discuss the application of the Competition Act to the Railway sector (as an Acrobat PDF file)
9 March - The transcript of the Proceedings of the Train Operator Seminar into Incentive Framework for Track Access Charges (as an Acrobat PDF file)
28 February - Comments on Railtrack's submission to the Rail Regulator in response to the consultation on Model Clauses
24 February - Railtrack's submission to the Rail Regulator in response to the consultation on Model Clauses
30 Oct 1998 - Statutory notice National Rail Enquiry Scheme (Proposed Enforcement Order)
Changes announced in Rail Regulation
10 September 1998 - Regulator launches passenger consumer liaison unit on the website

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Notifice having regard to regulation 11(16) and regulation 12(5) respectively of the Railways Regulations 1998 (SI No 1340), and to directive 95/19/EC - 24 January 2002
Notification of track access agreement - Notice having regard to regulation 11(16) and regulation 12(5) respectively of the Railways Regulations 1998 (SI No 1340), and to directive 95/19/EC - 30 October 2001
Notice pursuant to Regulation 11(16) and Regulation 12(5) respectively of the Railways Regulations 1998 (SI #1340), and to Directive 95/19/EC - 12 May 2000
Notice in the Official Journal of the European Communities - 7 May 1999
Notice on Eurostar published in Official Journal of the European Communities - 17 November 1998

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