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Mar 13, 2020 · But why do we hear about it so much, and is it because there are more signalling failures? Signalling is fundamental to the safe operation of the railway, ensuring that trains are spaced safely apart and conflicting movements are avoided.
Oct 18, 2023 · Following the government’s decision to cancel a large section of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project in favour of spending money on other transport projects, we’ve seen a number of claims being made about the number of people travelling by train compared to before the pandemic.
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Sep 22, 2022 · Impact of Coronavirus. In 2020, transport was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as lockdown measures significantly reduced demand for public transport use. These measures continued to...
- In autumn 2021 there were on average 1,105,379 daily passenger arrivals into major cities. This represents an increase of 144% compared to the same...
- In 2020, transport was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as lockdown measures significantly reduced demand for public transport use. These...
- In previous years this publication has presented estimates of overcrowding on trains during peak times using the PiXC (Passengers in Excess of Capa...
- All day arrivals:In autumn 2021, there were 1,105,379 arrivals into major cities on an average day. London remained the city with the highest rail...
- In autumn 2021, the average number of rail passengers arriving into London stations was 658,143. Of these, 291,416 (44%) of arrivals were during th...
- This section provides information on some longer-term trends of rail passenger numbers.Figure 9: Passenger rail usage in Great Britain (millions),...
- In 2021 rail journeys were more evenly spread throughout the day than in the pre-pandemic profile, albeit less so than in 2020. The typical peaks (...
- Total seating capacity, covering all day arrivals and all day departures totalled 8,306,432 in 2021.Train operators ran services in 2021 with daily...
- In this section estimates have been sourced from the National Travel Survey (NTS) and represent the full calendar year 2021 in England.Figure 17: R...
- This section provides findings from social research commissioned by the DfT – the ‘All Change? Travel Tracker’, and the Rail Delivery Group (RDG)....
Sep 4, 2021 · Government communications are "failing in many of its most basic functions" and need to be overhauled, a former No 10 communications director has said. Lee Cain - who worked for Boris Johnson...
Nov 15, 2017 · Signal failure refers to various things that go wrong, causing a train to be held up at a red signal. The stationary train quickly creates knock-on delays. Getty Images. Why do they go wrong?...
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Jan 8, 2020 · Why is my train often late? 8 January 2020. Getty Images. By Tom Burridge. Transport correspondent, BBC News. Broadly speaking, the people in charge of running our railways have two big challenges....
