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Railways: Trespass

Answer

Network Rail holds data on the estimated Schedule 8 costs arising from rail trespass incidents from 1 April 2014 onwards. The total value of the payments during this time can be found in the following table:

Volume of trespass related incidents and estimated costs of associated delays, annual, Great Britain, 2014/15 to 2025/26

Financial year	Volume of incidents1,2,4	Costs3,5 (£million, current prices)	Costs (£million, 2025/26 prices)	Average cost per incident (2025/26 prices)
2014/15	6,415	33.6	46.7	£ 7,300
2015/16	7,488	34.4	47.5	£ 6,300
2016/17	8,336	44.0	59.7	£ 7,200
2017/18	9,576	54.1	72.3	£ 7,500
2018/19	9,798	61.2	80.2	£ 8,200
2019/20	10,127	66.6	85.2	£ 8,400
2020/21	9,410	35.7	43.5	£ 4,600
2021/22	11,559	50.2	60.8	£ 5,300
2022/23	11,583	64.9	74.4	£ 6,400
2023/24	12,726	84.0	90.5	£ 7,100
2024/25	13,611	86.5	89.8	£ 6,600
2025/26	13,921	85.5	85.5	£ 6,100

Notes:

1. Incidents are delay causing incidents attributed to XA,VA reason codes

2. An incident can appear in more than one rail period if delay was suffered in more than one period

3. Costs are an internal Network Rail estimate of the long-term revenue loss due to those incidents (based on the economics behind the Schedule 8 performance regime)

Source: Network Rail

4. Delay & Cancellation metric dashboard

5. Process for Performance Improvement (PfPI) Costs are from the Performance System database Business Objects attribution universe

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL1924

Session

2026-27

Related items

Railways: Trespass
Friday, 19 June 2026
Written questions
House of Lords

Subjects

Compensation Railways Trespass Train operating companies

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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