The Office of Rail and Road and passenger watchdog Transport Focus convened staff of train operators and Network Rail for a workshop on January 17, to discuss possible policy changes and recommendations regarding stranded trains.
Incidents including the stranded Eurostar train that saw passengers stuck in the Channel Tunnel for seven hours in 2023, and the high-profile self-evacuation of passengers at Ladbroke Grove in December 2023 (RAIL 999), have brought the processes which are currently in place into sharper focus.
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Ray O'B - 11/02/2025 14:56
It would be useful to follow-up this initiative with a way to reduce the time trains are halted by suicides and by trespassing. In both cases, the industry seems to have gone backwards e.g. last year a two hour stop between Didcot and Swindon for an alleged trespass incident; in January 2024 three hour delays for a suicide at Maidenhead on a four track line.