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title: Christmas Rail Safety Message
date: 2014-12-19T10:46:00+11:00
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#  Christmas Rail Safety Message 

TasRail would like to take this opportunity to urge the community to think about rail safety over this holiday season.

 

 

 Post Date### 19 Dec 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  On the first day of Christmas everyone stayed off the tracks and ***remembered to look out for trains.***

On the second day of Christmas all the road users ***obey****ed **railway level crossing signals and signs.***

On the third day of Christmas, the community sang "***Stop, Look and Live"*** whenever they approached a railway level crossing.

On the fourth day of Christmas, Santa sent a message saying "***Don"t put your life on the lineâ€*** and said he would be checking his list, and checking it twice!

On the fifth day of Christmas, all wise men ***report****ed **incidents of railway trespass and vandalism*** to TasRail Train Control.

On the sixth day of Christmas, people living near the railway line had secure fencing and kept their ***animals off the tracks***.

On the seventh day of Christmas, all adults and children learned ***never go on the railway line*** without TasRail"s authorisation and track protection.

On the eight day of Christmas, people were *"Rocking" around the Christmas Tree"* and ***stay****ed **away from the railway tracks***.

On the ninth day of Christmas, the jingle bells chimed "***Use your brains, tracks are for trains***" as they jingled all the way.

On the tenth day of Christmas, TasRail wished upon a star that everyone would ***"Lose a minute, not a Life".***

On the eleventh day of Christmas, TasRail made a sign that said "*Freight **trains can"t stop but you can***" and asked the media to L*et it show, let it show, let it show*!

On the twelfth day of Christmas, there were no near misses, no trespass, no vandalism, no animals on the railway line, no level crossing incidents and everyone had a ***Merry Little Christmas***.

**Snapshot - Tasmanian Level Crossing Statistics**

**2014/15**

**Year to Date**

**2013/14**

**2012/13**

**2011/2012**

**2010/2011**

Number of reported "near miss" incidents at railway level crossings

 52

 105

 103

69

118

Number of railway level crossing collisions

1

 2

 1

 2

 7

Number of level crossing fatalaties

 1

 0

1

 2

Number of reported rail trespass incidents

36

63

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