Overview

• Marking World Suicide Prevention Day, Network Rail and Samaritans celebrated 15 years of partnership and urged the public to learn how to spot distress and intervene safely.
• Between April 2024 and March 2025, life-saving interventions across Britain’s rail network rose 18%, according to partnership figures.
• One in ten interventions occurred on the Wessex route, roughly a 9% increase on the previous year across that network segment.
• More than 31,000 rail employees and British Transport Police officers have completed Samaritans’ Managing Suicidal Contacts training.
• Operator Greater Anglia reports 855 staff trained and says staff interventions have helped save 20 lives so far this year, with Land Sheriffs carrying out two interventions.