Rail Trespass Prevention - Market Engagement
Buyer: NORTHERN TRAINS LIMITED
- Published
- 4 December 2025
- Place of performance
- UKC
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 079636-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05ee8d
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 35120000Surveillance and security systems and devices
Description
Background For authorised persons, station platforms can act as essential access points to the network allowing Network Rail and contractors to walk safely to signalling equipment and other line side assets. Unfortunately, they can also act as access points for unauthorised people who use platform ends as a means to trespass. Trespass on UK railways from April 2023 - March 2024 resulted in 908,000 delay minutes across over 1900 incidents, directly impacting our customers , representing a 15% increase on the previous year. Those who trespass are putting themselves and others at risk; in the same period, there were 10 deaths on mainline rail as a result of trespass. Trespassers come from a range of demographics, but are primarily young people between 12 and 20 years old, and adult males. Traditional means of keeping unauthorised persons from walking off the platform end include the use of gates and anti-trespass panels (sometimes known as "witches' hats"). They present a physical barrier that can be easily bypassed. They are also expensive to install and maintain due to the required safety regulations when working on or near the line, and for planning and materials. In staffed st…
Official publications
- FTS · 079636-2025 · 4 December 2025
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