ORR’s mission is to protect the interests of rail and road users. As regulator, we play a crucial role: ensuring safety, assuring value and driving performance of UK railways and England’s strategic roads, now and in the future. 

We oversee the rail and road industries, working to ensure they operate effectively for users and efficiently for taxpayers. We set standards, monitor performance, and enforce compliance to create an environment where users and industry stakeholders can have confidence in the system.

In rail reform, the vast majority of ORR’s functions will not change, although the way we will do them likely will, in terms of collaborating more strongly across industry and pursing the interests of users and taxpayers.