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ORR’s Annual Health and Safety Report of Performance on Britain’s Railways: 2015-16

This document on the Office of Rail Regulation will be dull reading for some.

But for anybody worried about rail safety and especially how perhaps the infrastructure is affecting their walking and driving, it is a hard but must read.

Some good points from this year’s report.

• No rail worker was killed on the rail network in 2015-2016.
• Britain’s railways are currently the safest they have ever been, but there is still room for improvement.
• For the ninth year in a row, we saw no passenger fatalities in train accidents.
• In 2008, in collaboration with us, Network Rail started closing high risk level crossings. With government support, over 1,000 crossings have been closed since 2009-10.
• This year saw a 12% reduction, to 252, in suicides and suspected suicides on Britain’s mainline railway.

Let’s hope the process continues.

July 20, 2016 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Safety, Trains