By default, RUSs are established by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) unless the latter objects within 60 days.
As with other RUSs, the L&C RUS took into account a number of responses,[4][5] including the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) .
[6] As has become customary with RUSs, the recommendations are nominally grouped into Control Periods (CP): CP4 - to the end of March 2009, CP5 - to 2014, and the longer term (CP6 and beyond).
The Settle and Carlisle route carries a considerable amount of coal traffic.
The December 2008 timetable increased the level of service between Sellafield and Whitehaven to ten a day (from five).