RSSB2746 - T1147 - The Health, Wellbeing and Safety Effects of Crowding on trains and in stations

Over the last decade the number of rail passenger journeys in Great Britain has grown by approximately 70%. In 2016-17 there were 1.71 billion passenger journeys and it is expected that demand will double in the next 25 years . Despite increases in carrying capacity on the railways, overcrowding has been an issue of concern for some years, both on trains and in stations, and has been prominent in news reports about Southern Rail, Northern Rail (in relation to problems associated with the timetable changes in 2018) and the maintenance works at London Bridge station. RSSB study T307 (2005) concluded that "there was very little direct evidence of the health effects of crowding", a position re…

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