ORR – Rail Guidance and Compliance

Scope

Landing page of the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), Great Britain's independent economic and safety regulator for railways, indexing the guidance, codes of practice and compliance documents ORR publishes covering railway safety, health and safety, and network access obligations under British law. Used by GB railway duty holders to locate applicable regulatory guidance and compliance material.

The Office of Rail and Road's Rail Guidance and Compliance page is the landing page through which ORR, Great Britain's independent economic and safety regulator for railways, indexes the guidance documents, codes of practice and compliance material it publishes covering railway safety, health and safety at work, and network access obligations under British law. As an independent regulator combining both economic regulation (competition, access and charging) and safety regulation functions, ORR's guidance spans a broader remit than purely technical rail safety authorities in other countries, reflecting the particular structure of railway regulation in Great Britain. GB railway duty holders -- including infrastructure managers, train operating companies and freight operators -- use the page to locate the specific guidance and compliance material relevant to their statutory obligations. The page functions as a navigational index into ORR's wider published output rather than a single regulatory document itself, linking through to the more detailed guidance covering each regulatory area ORR oversees. It is maintained directly by ORR on its official orr.gov.uk domain.