Level Crossings: Greater Manchester

(asked on 11th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many safety breaches have there been at rail road level crossings in Greater Manchester since 2015.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 17th December 2025

Great Britain’s level crossings are among the safest in Europe. The number of incidents at rail-road level crossings in Greater Manchester since 2017/18 is set out below. No comparable data is available for previous years.

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Fiscal Year

Incidents

2017/2018

38

2018/2019

34

2019/2020

31

2020/2021

15

2021/2022

36

2022/2023

40

2023/2024

58

2024/2025

41

2025/2026 (to 12 December)

38

Total

331

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