Railways: Franchises

(asked on 24th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the number of (a) closed and (b) pending applications for open access operation on the national rail network that have been referred to his Department since January 2010.


Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th October 2016

Open access track access applications are a matter for the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). They are not specifically referred to the Department.

The ORR publishes a list of all historic and pending decisions it has made on track access applications on its website:

http://orr.gov.uk/what-and-how-we-regulate/track-access/applications-decisions-appeals-and-agreements.

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