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Consultation Outcome Published 28 Sep 2017 Office of Rail and Road ↗ View on GOV.UK

Rail: calculating operator network access costs and alterations to the charging framework

Seeks views on how the costs operators pay to access the rail network are calculated and changes to the charging framework.

Opened 28 Sep 2017
Closed 30 Nov 2017
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As part of the 2018 periodic review of Network Rail, we are reviewing:

  • how the charges operators pay to access the rail network are calculated
  • Network Rail’s charging framework for control period 6

The framework changes include:

  • removing the capacity charge and coal spillage charge
  • merging the 2 existing freight mark-ups

and will prioritise reforms to charges that recover some of the fixed rail network running costs.