Rail safety and security

Guidelines, regulations and advice for keeping passengers safe at stations and on trains.

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Guidance and regulation

• How to prevent vehicles from hitting bridges
  • Guidance
  • 9 July 2014
  • Department for Transport
• Safer Railway Scheme
  • Guidance
  • 22 May 2026
  • Department for Transport
• Anti-social behaviour on public transport: safety measures
  • Detailed guide
  • 9 October 2012
  • Department for Transport
• Land transport security compliance policy framework
  • Guidance
  • 1 November 2015
  • Department for Transport
• Setting up a transport safety officers scheme
  • Guidance
  • 29 January 2026
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• New look, same message: ‘See it. Say it. Sorted’
  • 16 September 2025
  • Department for Transport, British Transport Police Authority, and Home Office
  • Press release
• Government reveals effective measures to save lives and prevent railway suicides
  • 10 September 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Press release
• Self-driving delivery boats to benefit from £1.8 million future transport fund
  • 21 March 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• £1 billion technology investment to bring railway into 21st century
  • 29 June 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• Building a better railway
  • 16 June 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Speech

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Research and statistics

• Transport safety officer pilot evaluation
  • 28 May 2026
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Signals passed at danger (SPADs): January to March 2026
  • 21 May 2026
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics
• Understanding the factors that influence people’s decision to travel by train
  • 12 May 2026
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Signals passed at danger (SPADs): October to December 2025
  • 26 February 2026
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics
• Common Safety Indicators: 2024
  • 22 January 2026
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Draft train protection systems guidance
  • 7 August 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 01 March 2024
• Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail: legislative changes to implement rail reform
  • 26 February 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 04 August 2022
• Draft guidance on managing rail staff fatigue
  • 16 February 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 08 March 2024
• Draft Rail Reform Bill
  • 20 February 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper
• Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail
  • 14 December 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• British Transport Police Fund: statement of accounts 2022 to 2023
  • 14 August 2023
  • British Transport Police Authority
  • Corporate report
• British Transport Police Fund: statement of accounts 2021 to 2022
  • 8 August 2022
  • British Transport Police Authority
  • Corporate report
• British Transport Police: an inspection of the service provided to the victims of crime
  • 20 May 2022
  • Department for Transport, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, and British Transport Police Authority
  • Corporate report
• British Transport Police Authority framework agreement
  • 8 March 2018
  • Department for Transport and British Transport Police Authority
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department
  for Transport
• Foreign, Commonwealth
  & Development Office
• Home Office