Office of the Rail Regulator

Office of the Rail Regulator
(ORR)
The regulator for the railways. Its principal function is to regulate Network Rail's stewardship of the national rail network infrastructure. It also has concurrent jurisdiction with the Office of Fair Trading, under the Competition Act 1998.
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