Safety Bulletin – NRB19-15 Insecure access points

Overview

On the 15th September an access gate was left unlocked between Topsham and Exton on the Exmouth branch line following track renewal work in the area.

When staff arrived to secure the gate, children were found on the line having accessed the railway via this gate.

This incident follows several recent occurrences where people have accessed the infrastructure via insecure access points.

Insecure access points allow trespassers to access the infrastructure.

This poses serious safety and security risks and provides an opportunity for crime and malicious acts to occur.

What you should do?

To ensure safe access and egress to the Railway infrastructure apply standard NR/L3/TRK/002/D15, which states that access points should be routinely inspected, checking that they are secured and if not notifying fault control.

Authorised access points should be secured when not in use.

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