Registration and Supporting Information

Competitors may only submit an entry to the Design Contest phase if they are officially registered through RIBA Competitions and in possession of a Unique Registration Number [URN].


All future correspondence, including Clarification Memoranda and a unique link to RIBA Competitions’ digital submission portal [RIBA Submit] will be sent to the e-mail address used at the time of the on-line registration. On-line registrations will close at 17.00hrs (BST) on Friday 11 September 2020. Please refer to the Conditions of Participation for full details regarding anonymity, submission requirements and deadline for receipt of entries.

Registered Candidates will be issued with the following information within one working day of submitting the request form:


  • The Unique Registration Number (NR#) to be used on each element of the submission to maintain anonymity

  • Editable version of Declaration of Authorship form

  • ‘HUB – Making places for people and trains’ – A Photographic study of representative small to medium sized railway stations on the UK National Rail network (PDF format)

  • Document summarising output from the Design Council’s ThinkStation workshop programme (PDF format)

  • Draft Terms of Appointment for the Service Contract, including summary of requirements that the Lead Consultant firm from each Bid Team will need to satisfy in order to ultimately enter into a Service Contract with Network Rail





Brief and Appendices


Download the PDF version of the Competition Brief which includes Appendices 1-5