With industrial action taking place today and over the next few days, please check before you travel.
If your train is disrupted or cancelled you might be entitled to a refund.
#KnowYourRailRights
Interested in a career at ORR? The posts currently available, include:
🔹 HM Principal Inspector of Railways - Channel Tunnel
🔹 Apprentice Finance Executive
🔹 Environmental Specialist
If you want to make a difference, apply at:
We’ve published a new data dashboard to help train operators use network capacity (access rights) better in the future.
It will also help us hold the rail industry to account, in passengers’ interests – find out more ➡
Will Godfrey, Director of Economics, Finance and Markets from
@Railandroad
discusses PR23, the platform for investment and a customer-focused railway in uncertain times
#RailForum24
We're pleased to see positive action from train companies to make information sent to passengers about changes to their booked journeys clearer, following our review.
Read about the improvements made:
Missed any episodes of our Rail and Road Pod? Listen back and follow ⬇️
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The pod brings together a series of conversations on issues impacting Britain's railway and England's strategic road network.
Interested in a career at ORR? We currently have exciting job opportunities in specialisms including:
🔹 Regulatory analysis and economics
🔹 Rail safety
🔹 Corporate finance
🔹 Environmental policy
If you want to make a difference, apply at:
Over on our blog, Haydn Gill from our
#Highways
team discusses how we hold National Highways to account on its target of no net loss of biodiversity by 2025.
Learn more ➡
ICYMI: Our report reviewing the reliability of lifts at stations on GB's rail network found an average of more than six faults for each passenger lift over a year from October 2022.
Read more ⬇
We've published our business plan for 2024 to 2025.
It sets out what we aim to achieve to meet our strategic objectives:
🔹 a safer railway
🔹 better rail customer service
🔹 value for money from the railway
🔹 better highways
Learn more 👉
Our engineers play a crucial role in dealing with the effects of climate change on the
#railway
.
Over on our blog, Andy Barron discusses his role as an engineer in sustainable development ➡
As we celebrate St George's Day, take a look back at our station usage stats for April 2022 to March 2023.
These were the top 5 in England 🏴
London Liverpool Street had the most entries and exits at 80.4 million.
#StGeorgesDay
Today is
#EarthDay
🌍
We’re working across rail and road to mitigate the impacts of climate change and hold
@networkrail
,
@NationalHways
and others to account on their environmental targets.
Learn more about our work in this area on our blog ➡
Latest stats show 19 operators reported pre-cancellations due to non-availability of staff or rolling stock between April 2023 and March 2024. This adjusts their official Cancellations score.
The adjusted Cancellations score for the GB network was 4.2%.
We've published our business plan for 2024 to 2025.
It sets out what we aim to achieve to meet our strategic objectives:
🔸 a safer railway
🔸 better rail customer service
🔸 value for money from the railway
🔸 better highways
Find out more 👉
Our report, published today, found some disabled passengers experience accessibility difficulties with the rail complaints process.
There is also a lack of awareness of how to seek redress for booked assistance failures.
➡️
This month marks the start of a new five-year rail control period.
Will Godfrey explains our role in holding Network Rail to account on how it delivers for
#railway
passengers and freight users 🚉
Learn more 👉
🛑 11-year-old Harrison Ballantyne tragically lost his life when he was electrocuted by overhead power cables after straying into a rail depot to retrieve a football. He was hit by 25,000 volts of electricity.
There was nothing his friends or paramedics could do to save him.
Will Godfrey, our Director of Economics, Finance and Markets, will be speaking at the Rail Industry Forum on Wednesday 1 May.
Find out more 👇
#RailForum24