Adelaide Metro

DON'T PLAY WITH TRAINS

Safety at railway level crossings is very important for road users, train passengers and crews. Every year in Australia an average of 37 road users, vehicle occupants and pedestrians, die as a result of collisions with trains at railway level crossings. The National Railway Level Crossing Behavioural Strategy seeks to develop ways to reduce the number of crashes and fatalities at railway level crossings through consistent education and enforcement programs aimed at modifying vehicle driver and pedestrian behaviour.

With strong support and cooperation from the rail industry and government authorities, the events conducted since 2006 have been a tremendous success in raising media and public awareness of railway level crossing safety.

This year the Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure and TransAdelaide once again worked in collaboration with the ARA and major rail operators and government agencies from all States and Territories to initiate National Rail Safety Week which was held from Monday 21 July to Sunday 27 July 2008.  Creative safety activities were organised in various locations in every State and Territory across Australia and New Zealand.

At the start of Rail Safety week South Australia became the first State in Australia to roll out a ‘More Than One Train’ warning system. In all, the warning signals will be installed at 17 sites across the network. The (More Than One Train) warning signs that read “caution more than one train” will illuminate and sound an audible alarm to alert pedestrians when multiple trains are approaching at the same time.

To support understanding of the new warning system a DVD has been produced for distribution to local schools and community groups. The DVD explains the new signals and reinforces the messages about safe pedestrian behaviour when crossing rail lines. View the DVD below:

Using incident statistics to identify pedestrian and motorist ‘hot spots’ SA Police are supporting Rail Safety Week with a traffic enforcement campaign targeting the behaviour of all road users (heavy vehicles, motorists, cyclists and pedestrians) at level crossings.

In addition to launching the new warning signals, the highly effective and award winning “Don’t Play with Trains” television advertising campaign was shown in South Australia during the week.

Click here for advertisement one and here for advertisement two - (2.2MB WMV files).

All Adelaide Metro trains and trams are operated by TransAdelaide.