Rail safety and rail privatization |
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| Authors: | Andrew Evans |
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| Affiliation: | Andrew Evans is Lloyds Register Professor of Risk Management at Imperial College. He is also Chairman of the Rail Safety Working Groups of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety. |
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| Abstract: | Privatisation of the state-owned British railway system was completed in 1997. The following 6 years saw four serious fatal train accidents, leading to 49 deaths. These were the train collisions at Southall in 1997 and Ladbroke Grove in 1999, each caused by trains passing red signals, and the derailments at Hatfield in 2000 and Potters Bar in 2002, each caused by defective track. Has safety been compromised by the sell-off of the railways? Andrew Evans looks at the evidence and asks has privatisation led to more accidents? |
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