UK national freight performance is at its lowest point for the last five years. That is the finding of the UK industry regulator, the Office of Rail and Road, in their report on Network Rail,...Read more
UK electric hauled freight has shown little change over the past ten years. That’s according to new figures just released by the Office of Rail and Road, the government-appointed independent watchdog. In terms of weight...Read more
The Office of Rail and Road expects very much more of the same. The switch over of responsibilities from the outgoing Network Rail to the incoming Great British Railways should be seamless and not interrupt...Read more
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the autonomous government safety and performance watchdog, has assessed Network Rail Scotland as part of a nationwide review. The annual report card is not good reading for the...Read more
The latest set of statistics from the UK office of Rail and Road paint a rosy picture of rail freight recovery from the pandemic. However, the pandemic does skew the statistics and longer term trends...Read more
The UK infrastructure agency, Network Rail, has been fined 1.4 million pounds (1.65 million euro) following serious safety failings. The regulator, the Office of Rail and Road, brought the prosecution following life-changing injuries to an...Read more
A dispute over track access rights has put the brakes on both passenger and freight development on a line connecting North Wales and Merseyside. Local campaigners and politicians say it is a blight on economic...Read more
Despite everything in the world, the rail freight sector remains robust. That may be the best interpretation of the latest rail freight figures, which show some statistically significant swings, but offer no clear picture on...Read more
Official figures from the Office of Rail and Road point to a recovery in the rail freight sector. The latest quarterly statistics show traffic has recovered to levels seen before the onset of the pandemic....Read more
Rail freight moved across Britain’s railway has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to the Office of Rail and Road, the UK government’s accredited primary provider of railway industry official statistics. However, whether those statistics can...Read more
There is always room for improvement. That is the note on a sheaf of end-of-term report card on the UK rail network. Both the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and the Rail Safety and...Read more
WH Malcolm Limited has been fined 6,5 million pounds (7,7 million euros) after being found guilty of negligence over the death of an eleven-year-old boy in 2017. The case comes to light just as the...Read more
The official UK government figures, issued by the Office of Rail and Road, show expected retrenchment in rail freight activity. Much of that is attributed directly to the pandemic. Consequently, signs of recovery are there,...Read more
Despite the pandemic and the Brexit, rail freight in the UK recorded growth of over two per cent in the third quarter of 2020. The latest official quarterly figures from the Office of Rail and...Read more
The rail freight sector is fighting to maintain its profitability despite terrible trading conditions. The headlines from the latest official UK rail statistics make mixed reading. The government figures show a summer of disruption and...Read more
Despite the praise rightly heaped on rail freight operators for keeping the essential supplies flowing, the April-July statistics make grim reading for the sector. Official figures from the Office of Rail and Road, released late...Read more
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) says the latest statistics, released last week by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), show a worrying downward trend. The Union has called for...Read more
Lighter loads moved shorter distances. That could be the headline interpretation of the latest industry statistics from the UK Office of Rail and Road. Freight figures show the lowest total tonne-kilometre figures of the century...Read more
The Office of Rail and Road, the oversight body in the UK, has said it is investigating the performance of Network Rail, the infrastructure manager for most of the network, and has issued a warning...Read more
Access charges are going up on the dedicated high speed line connecting London and the Channel Tunnel. But freight traffic gets a break, thanks to the regulator. HS1 Limited, the company that operates the line,...Read more
A big decline in demand for coal movements was a key factor in rail freight falling significantly in the UK during 2016/17, according to official figures. Rail freight moved fell to 17.2 billion net tonne...Read more
