Railways: Accidents
(asked on 20th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many platform train interface incidents have been reported on the national rail network in each year since 2010.
The number of platform-train interface incidents reported on the national rail network since 2010 is as follows:
Number of recorded accidents | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Platform-train interface accidents (boarding/alighting) | 1,283 | 1,317 | 1,341 | 1,421 | 1,425 | 1,427 |
Platform-train interface accidents (not boarding/alighting) | 97 | 93 | 91 | 83 | 95 | 86 |
Total number of platform-train interface accidents | 1,380 | 1,410 | 1,432 | 1,504 | 1,520 | 1,513 |
Number of accidents per million passenger journeys | 1.02 | 0.96 | 0.95 | 0.95 | 0.92 | 0.90 |
The above table shows that the number of accidents per million passenger journeys has declined since 2010 to reach its lowest level since 2010 in 2015/16.
This information is based on data available in RSSB’s Annual Safety Performance Report. The latest Report, covering 2015/16, is available from www.rssb.co.uk/risk-analysis-and-safety-reporting/safety-intelligence/safety-performance-reports.
An industry-approved Platform-Train Interface Strategy, developed by RSSB and published in January 2015, has been created to reduce the number of platform-train interface incidents and further improve performance across the whole network. This is available from www.rssb.co.uk/Library/improving-industry-performance/2015-01-platform-train-interface-strategy.pdf.