Train Operating Companies: Staff

(asked on 3rd September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish workforce data showing the (a) headcount and (b) the full-time equivalence of staffing levels of each train operating company.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 9th September 2019

The Office of Rail and Road publish information on the total number of employees for each train operating company in Great Britain. The Department does not publish any official statistics on Train operating companies’ workforce.

Total number of employees, 2018-19

Train Operating Company

Number of Employees

c2c

690

Caledonian Sleeper

174

Chiltern

852

CrossCountry

1,915

East Midlands Trains

2,460

Govia Thameslink Railway

7,276

Grand Central

193

Great Western Railway

6,343

Greater Anglia

3,103

Hull Trains

122

London North Eastern Railway

3,012

London Overground

1,451

Merseyrail

1,206

Northern

6,183

ScotRail

5,168

Southeastern

4,410

South Western Railway

5,177

TfL Rail

1,401

TfW Rail

2,293

Transpennine Express

1,258

Virgin Trains West Coast

3,724

West Midlands Trains

2,834

Additional years are available at the following link:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/compendia/toc-key-statistics/

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