THE Office of Rail and Road is dealing with more than 80 track access applications for the next three timetable changes (in December this year and May and December 2025).
It follows a call earlier this year for bids, thought to have been made to avoid the issues experienced recently on the East Coast Main Line, where controversial changes to the December 2024 timetable had to be postponed.
ORR asked for bids from those wanting access to key areas including Euston-Nuneaton, the Birmingham area including Water Orton, Birmingham-Derby, Derby-Sheffield, the Sheffield area, King’s Cross-Edinburgh and Leeds, Oxford, Gloucester and Cardiff.
It said the list was based on Network Rail’s assessment of where existing applications or aspirations interact. It added that “as capacity analysis work progresses, it is possible further locations…
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