Railways: Standards

(asked on 16th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on which occasions train operating companies have been fined by (a) his Department and (b) the Office of Rail Regulation for (i) missing punctuality targets or (ii) late running passenger services; and what the amount of the fine was in each such case.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 21st July 2014

Only 4 TOCs (Arriva Trains Wales, Chiltern, First TransPennine Express & Virgin Trains) have financial incentives for performance, based on formulaic contractual payments from the Department for Transport (DfT) to the Train Operating Company (TOC) for performance above a set level benchmark, and from the TOC to the DfT for performance below it. The amounts paid are commercially confidential.

The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) agrees track access contracts between Network Rail and train operators. These track access contracts provide for Network Rail to pay compensation to an operator in the event that train services cannot operate or are delayed due to late running engineering works or unplanned disruption outside that operator’s control.

ORR publishes the annual totals of these payments (referred to as Schedule 8 payments) at route level on its data portal. The data comes from Network Rail’s regulatory financial statements.

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/displayreport/report/html/345da3b9-b9ac-449a-aace-8298c5b39e2b

The ORR regulate Network Rail with regard to industry performance, they do not regulate train operators in this area.

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