Question follow-through · 16321
Railway Stations: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the safety of platform train interfaces at train stations.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the safety of platform train interfaces at train stations.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
Working with the industry, the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has developed a comprehensive strategy to improve safety at the platform train interface (PTI) on the mainline railway. The strategy adopts a whole-system, safety by design, risk-based ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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