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Title: Rail Fact Sheets for 2016 / revised Post by: grahame 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] (http://atrebatia.info/rail-passengers-factsheet-2016-revised.pdf) and for trends fact sheet [here] (http://atrebatia.info/rail-trends-factsheet-2016-revised.pdf). 4 pages each - useful summaries. Please pick out something useful and comment ;-) ... Title: Re: Rail Fact Sheets for 2016 / revised Post by: JayMac 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.
Title: Re: Rail Fact Sheets for 2016 / revised Post by: Chris from Nailsea 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. :( This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |