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grahame

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Rail Fact Sheets for 2016 / revised

« on: February 09, 2017, 12:28:04 »

Published this morning via: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rail-factsheets-2016

Mirrors for passenger fact sheet [here] and for trends fact sheet [here].

4 pages each - useful summaries. Please pick out something useful and comment ;-) ...


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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2017, 12:34:57 »

The industry seems to be churning out reports left, right and centre at the moment. Information overload. Lots of talk, little by way of definite action.


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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2017, 16:24:02 »

For me, the particularly interesting statistics are in the Rail Trends Factsheet, page 4, on Safety.

Of the 297 fatalities on the UK^▸ railways in 2015/16, 252 (85%) were suicides. Of the 516 major injuries, 33 were suicide attempts.

We do discuss the subject of suicide on the railways quite often here on the Coffee Shop forum, and I think those figures help to explain why. Most of those who decided to try to end their life using the railways were sadly successful - 88% died, 12% were seriously injured.

To me, those figures are so sad. Every one of them involved an individual human being. Sad


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