Inadequate fencing allowing unauthorized railway access
British Transport Police received 3 coroners' reports about this hazard between 23 Jul 2015 and 28 Mar 2024.
They came from 3 different coroners in 3 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 2 times after the first warning.
A published response was found for 2 of the 2 earlier reports, stating 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“(1 During the course of the inquest, evidence suggested that access to the site was gained by insecure fencing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ British Transport Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“There has been an extension to the palisade fencing to prevent access by climbing around the side of the fencing to the over bridge that carries the disused line from which [the deceased] climbed down.”
- 5 years 10 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Christine Gould↗
28 May 2021 · Nicholas Moss QC · Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
“In [name redacted]' case, earlier consideration to the fence boundary being a credible route of access may have led to the fence boundary being improved more quickly after her death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ British Transport Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“Following notification of the Regulation 28 report, a member of the Investigation Review Team within the British Transport Police was commissioned to review the investigation of [the deceased], the scope of this review was limited to the matters of concern. This review offered recommendations of which a number are included within this response.”
- 2 years 10 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“Car park line side fencing being too low. The proposed mitigation was replacement of the fencing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ British Transport Police responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2021 → 2024Daniela Pani2 years 10 months after Christine Gould · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that inadequate fencing or barriers can allow individuals to access the railway line and die by suicide. The earlier report focuses on investigating whether a fence was a credible access point, while the later report identifies the car park line‑side fencing as too low.
Christine Gould · 28 May 2021
“In [name redacted]' case, earlier consideration to the fence boundary being a credible route of access may have led to the fence boundary being improved more quickly after her death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Daniela Pani · 28 Mar 2024
“Car park line side fencing being too low. The proposed mitigation was replacement of the fencing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ 2015 → 2024Daniela Pani8 years 8 months after Ashley Matthews · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight inadequate fencing that allowed unauthorized access to a railway site. The earlier report cites insecure fencing generally, while the later report specifies that the car‑park line‑side fencing was too low.
Ashley Matthews · 23 Jul 2015
“(1 During the course of the inquest, evidence suggested that access to the site was gained by insecure fencing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Daniela Pani · 28 Mar 2024
“Car park line side fencing being too low. The proposed mitigation was replacement of the fencing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“There has been an extension to the palisade fencing to prevent access by climbing around the side of the fencing to the over bridge that carries the disused line from which [the deceased] climbed down.”
Stated action
“There has been an extension to the palisade fencing to prevent access by climbing around the side of the fencing to the over bridge that carries the disused line from which [the deceased] climbed down.”
Stated action
“Following notification of the Regulation 28 report, a member of the Investigation Review Team within the British Transport Police was commissioned to review the investigation of [the deceased], the scope of this review was limited to the matters of concern. This review offered recommendations of which a number are included within this response.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to British Transport Police at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 → 2024 | 0.65 | 0.01 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
| 2015 → 2024 | 0.65 | 0.15 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
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