Balfour Beatty Rail Limited ↗
Balfour Beatty Rail Limited failed to make and give effect to suitable arrangements for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring, and review of preventive and …
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Office of Rail and Road enforcement
Prosecutions, improvement notices and prohibition notices published by the Office of Rail and Road, with Railways Act licence orders. Each record links to the ORR's own page. Prosecutions are held from the 2022 sentencing round onward from ORR's own page, plus a hand-checked set of earlier ones; improvement and prohibition notices are held from 2022. Earlier notices and prosecutions are on ORR's site in tables that are not yet loaded here.
72 notices
24 prosecutions
41 improvement notices
4 prohibition notices
£53.2m in penalties
Enforcement notices 72 records
Descriptions of notices and of prosecutions from 2022 are ORR's own wording from its pages. Descriptions of the earlier prosecutions and the licence orders are summaries written by this site. Each record's link goes to the ORR. Covers enforcement actions under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Balfour Beatty Rail Limited ↗
During a site visit on 4 September 2026, the technicians on site informed the ORR inspector that they were using a tower scaffold work platform …
London Underground Limited ↗
London Underground Limited failed to ensure that lifting operations using the overhead crane, Allen Crane LBD number A1365, in the machine shop at Lillie Bridge …
Nene Valley Railway Limited ↗
Nene Valley Railway Ltd failed to make and give effect to appropriate arrangements for the effective control of lifting equipment and lifting accessories, resulting in …
The East Anglia Transport Museum Society Limited ↗
On inspection, significant corrosion on the cross member underneath the body of Blackpool Tram 634 on either side of the centre platform doors was identified. …
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited ↗
Network Rail were fined £1.2million on 7 August 2026 for breaching health and safety legislation. It followed an incident on 16 September 2022, when a …
West Coast Railway Company Ltd ↗
West Coast Railway Company Ltd failed to ensure the safety of their employees and others who may be affected by their work activities, in that …
Dean Forest Railway Company Limited ↗
On 14 August 2025 part of a 360-degree excavator being transported by train struck a footbridge carrying a public footpath over the Dean Forest Heritage …
Blackpool Transport Services Limited ↗
Blackpool Transport Services Limited failed to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, appropriate measures to control and mitigate known risks associated with bogie degradation …
Channel Tunnel Group Limited ↗
Persons are entering a confined space not in accordance with a system of work which renders that work safe and without risks to health. Channel …
Channel Tunnel Group Limited ↗
Channel Tunnel Group Limited were fined £2.25 million on 10 April 2026 for breaching health and safety legislation. It followed an incident at the UK …
West Midlands Trains Limited ↗
West Midlands Trains have failed to take suitable and sufficient measures to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, persons falling a distance liable to …
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited ↗
Network Rail failed to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the vibration risk created by work carried out using vibrating hand tools to the …
First Greater Western Limited (trading as Great Western Railway) ↗
First Greater Western Limited were fined £1 million on 3 October 2025 for breaching health and safety legislation. It followed a fatal incident near Twerton …
Leighton Buzzard Railway Ltd ↗
Following a visit to the duty holder on the 23rd July 2025, the inspector reported that, while the duty holder has risk assessments in place …
Leighton Buzzard Railway Ltd ↗
Following a visit to the duty holder on the 23rd July 2025, the inspector reported that, while the duty holder has risk assessments in place …
Leighton Buzzard Railway Ltd ↗
Following a visit to the duty holder on the 23rd July 2025, the inspector reported that, while the duty holder has risk assessments in place …
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited ↗
A member of Clarke Chapman Facilities Maintenance staff working at Beeston Modular S&C Depot contracted Pontiac Fever. ORR’s investigation found that there was no responsible …
Helston Railway Preservation Company Limited ↗
ORR received concern in relation to potentially unsafe construction of a footbridge on the Helston Railway, a wholly volunteer run heritage railway in Cornwall. Site …
London Underground Limited ↗
London Underground have failed to conduct their undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far is as reasonably practicable, that persons not in …
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited ↗
The ongoing investigation into the circumstances of the freight train derailment at Audenshaw on 6 September 2024 shows that Network Rail are not conducting their …
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited ↗
Network Rail was fined £3.41 million following the death of a track worker at Surbiton on 9 February 2021. The worker, part of a four-person …
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited ↗
Network Rail was fined £3.75 million following the deaths of track workers Michael Lewis and Gareth Delbridge at Margam, South Wales, on 3 July 2019. …
Great Western Society Limited ↗
Great Western Society Limited has failed to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that its employees and persons other than its employees are not …
The Tramway Museum Society ↗
The Tramway Museum Society have failed to make arrangements for the effective planning, monitoring and review of the preventative and protective measures that will, so …
Activity breakdown all notices
Notices by year
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| Issue year | Notices |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 10 |
| 2026 | 13 |
By recipient
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| Recipient | Notices |
|---|---|
| Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 20 |
| Blackpool Transport Services Limited | 3 |
| London Underground Limited | 3 |
| Channel Tunnel Group Limited | 3 |
| Leighton Buzzard Railway Ltd | 3 |
| Transport for Greater Manchester | 2 |
| Chiltern Railways | 2 |
| Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd | 2 |
| Govia Thameslink Railway Limited | 2 |
| Balfour Beatty Rail Limited | 2 |