Rail accessibility

Accessibility improvements, regulations and compliance for trains and rail stations.

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Guidance and regulation

• Accessible railway stations: design standards
  • Guidance
  • 31 December 2020
  • Department for Transport
• Rail vehicles built or refurbished to modern accessibility standards
  • Guidance
  • 8 July 2020
  • Department for Transport
• Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations: exemption orders
  • Guidance
  • 18 July 2023
  • Department for Transport
• Transport for Wales Rail Limited: accessibility compliance dispensation
  • Guidance
  • 26 July 2021
  • Department for Transport
• Exemptions from rail vehicle accessibility regulations and their expiry dates
  • Guidance
  • 6 October 2015
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• Rail interoperability: exemptions and decisions
  • 24 October 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Decision
• Belmont trains boosted with £14.1 million (Levelling Up Fund 2)
  • 19 February 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Case study
• £50m investment for travel improvements in Cornwall (Levelling Up Fund 2)
  • 19 February 2024
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Case study
• £5.3 million investment in innovative projects to make railways more accessible
  • 23 November 2023
  • Department for Transport and Innovate UK
  • News story
• Unnecessary train announcements binned in ‘bonfire of the banalities’
  • 21 January 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Disabled Persons Railcards (DPRC) and assisted journeys data: 1 April 2024 to 20 July 2024 (Periods 1 to 4)
  • 31 October 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics
• Assisted journeys data: 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 (Periods 1 to 13)
  • 11 July 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics
• Disabled Persons Railcards (DPRC) data: 7 January 2024 to 31 March 2024 (Periods 11 to 13)
  • 11 July 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics
• Disabled Persons Railcards (DPRC) data: 15 October 2023 to 6 January 2024 (Periods 8 to 10)
  • 11 April 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics
• Disabled Persons Railcards (DPRC) data: 23 July 2023 to 14 October 2023 (Periods 5 to 7)
  • 18 January 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• RVAR 2010 exemption: Hayling Light Railway Trust
  • 19 July 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 16 August 2024
• Rail vehicle dispensation: Porterbrook refurbished Class 170s for CrossCountry Trains and East Midlands Railways
  • 22 April 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 22 May 2024
• Rail vehicle dispensation: Transport for Wales Rail Ltd Active Travel Class 153s
  • 19 March 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 30 April 2024
• RVAR 2010 exemption: London Underground Limited Bakerloo line
  • 29 February 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 28 March 2024
• Design standards for accessible railway stations: a code of practice
  • 23 August 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 01 December 2023

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Railway stations awarded Access for All accessibility funding
  • 24 May 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• Rail vehicle accessibility regulations exemption orders: annual report 2018
  • 8 July 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • Corporate report
• Rail vehicle accessibility regulations exemption orders: annual report 2019
  • 8 July 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • Corporate report
• Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations exemption orders: annual report 2017
  • 16 October 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Corporate report
• Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations exemption orders: annual report 2016
  • 20 December 2017
  • Department for Transport
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Transport

• Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee