Backtrack and Rail Safe Friendly

What is Backtrack?

Backtrack Competition is run by the Community Rail Network and it was originally set up during lockdown so that parents could educate their children about the railway. The backtrack competition is managed by several Community Rail Partnerships who invest their time into ensuring schools take part. The Rail Safe Friendly team will work in collaboration with all involved to ensure schools also become Rail Safe Friendly.

The Backtrack competition aims to reduce the amount of trespass on the UKs railways.

Entrants will be asked to create a simple but powerful message, to make others aware of the dangers of trespassing and to encourage them to stop. Entrants could also make a short film saying why they would not trespass on the railway (also known as a pledge) using the pledge card on this website, or design a small graphic/picture sharing 1 rail safety message that could be shared on social media.

What is Rail Safe Friendly?

Rail Safe Friendly builds on the success of the Learn Live digital delivery of educating young people across the UK about rail safety as part of the Network Rail You vs Train campaign. Since 2019, Learn Live have reached over 19 million young people in 10,500 schools across the UK in partnership with the Trespass Improvement Team at Network Rail. Learn Live delivers rail safety via live or on demand rail safety presentation using the Learn Live channel delivered digitally into the classroom or assembly halls.

Rail Safe Friendly provides schools and the rail industry with an opportunity to work together towards a common goal to improve rail safety in all schools across the UK using content from the Network Rail Switched On Rail Safety website.

All schools and industry partners that are part of the friendly will display the Rail Safe Friendly logo on their website to show their support for rail safety.

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