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Leeds Station Safety Week on track to save lives
National World - LocalTV
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21/05/2025
Almost 900 children have been learning about railway safety as part of Leeds Station Safety Week, with figures showing trespassing incidents are on the rise.
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My name is Chloe Crefield. I am the Community Safety Manager for the North and East Route of Network Rail.
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Now we host a Leeds Station Safety Week annually and we have timed it for when the students from primary schools,
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the Year 6 students, have just completed their SATs and they get a train trip into Leeds Station where they have several fun activities.
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They will learn how to make safe choices around the railway. Unfortunately, we have a lot of people who make the wrong choices
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and it can end up with disastrous results, even fatal results. And those, when they happen, they have a ripple effect
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on so many different lives, you just can't imagine. So them getting this education will hopefully, in a fun way,
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make sure that they're aware that there's more dangers than just a train coming.
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You can see everybody from all sorts of walks of life that actually have taken a rail career
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and they'll be escorting these students around and talking about what they do
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and what might be options for them, for them to consider about their careers.
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Last week, I took four kids off the track over in Kiefler. They got on through a fence from a public footpath.
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They went on there to grab some rocks off the railway and just throw into the river.
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So the danger is there. You've got a bridge over the river. The lines were electrified.
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So a risk of electrocution. And that even brought a train to a complete stop.
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The railway is here to be enjoyed by everyone. You know, it's here to be used safely.
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But just to get a message across to the children, you know, don't play on the railway. You know, it is dangerous.
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I've got their simulator, which we've opened up to all the children.
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And it's just been a fantastic response when you're getting a train from A to Z.
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There's a lot going on. And train driving is just one aspect of it.
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But it's really nice to be able to give them the opportunity to come on and have a go themselves.
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It's such a unique opportunity. As adults, we don't even get a chance to go on the simulators.
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So it's just showing them that and giving them an insight into what actually the job of a train driver is
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and the safety side of it. So showing them that a train can't just stop.
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It's really, like, interesting because I didn't expect it to have, like, so many buttons.
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And I couldn't understand, like, if he was a first learner to go on a train, it would be really confusing.
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All the important learning we've been doing, I would just keep focusing on that anytime I'm near a rail station.
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I visited one school and three weeks later, a youth of the age that I spoke to actually followed my
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instructions for when his mobile phone dropped on the railway tracks. And instead of jumping down to
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get it himself, we took the safe option of phoning 101. And I can't be guaranteed that it's because
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I spoke to him. But I'm going to take that one as a win and say that we probably saved his life
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because we've gone into his school. So that's, it feels very rewarding and feels like you make a difference.
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