To assess the safety of Plumpton Level Crossing and the design of new gates.

The request was partially successful.

Dear Network Rail Limited,
Please can you ask Alastair Coates to provide:
1. The maintenance records for Plumpton Level Crossing for the past 10 years.
2. Letters to staff operating the crossing informing them that the crossing was deemed to be 'unsafe'. (Under Regulation 22 of the Railways and other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations).
3. Performance Data on maintenance and issues for the past 10 years for all the MCB-OD crossings in the UK.
4. The full Feasibility Study for Level Crossing design Option C in Planning Application LW/15/0538.
Yours faithfully,
Katie Wride
Plumpton Level Crossing Campaign

FOI, Network Rail Limited

Reference number: FOI2015/01017

Dear Ms Wride,

Information request

Your correspondence was received by Network Rail on 19th October 2015. I can confirm that your request is being processed under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). I will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible and in any event by 16th November 2015.

On occasion we may need to consult with third parties about requests, in line with the recommendations in the Code of Practice issued by the then Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs.

If you have any queries please contact me.

Please remember to quote your reference number in all future communications.

Yours sincerely

Emma Wolstenholme
Information Officer

Freedom of Information Team
The Quadrant
Elder Gate
Milton Keynes
MK9 1EN

Telephone: 01908 782405
Email: [Network Rail request email]
Web: www.networkrail.co.uk/foi

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Reference number: FOI2015/01017

 

Dear Ms Wride,

 

Please find attached our response to your Environmental Information
Regulations request.

 

If you have any queries please contact me.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Emma Wolstenholme

Information Officer

 

Freedom of Information Team

The Quadrant

Elder Gate

Milton Keynes

MK9 1EN

 

Telephone: 01908 782405

Email: [1][Network Rail request email]

Web: [2]http://www.networkrail.co.uk/foi/

 

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Dear FOI,
Please can you provide me with the information I requested in part 1,2 and 4 of the initial FOI request.
With many thanks
Katie

Yours sincerely,

Katie Wride

Bert Cuttlefish left an annotation ()

Katie - may I suggest that to not fall foul of the request being too time consuming, and therefore it is rejected, you consider making a number of FOI requests? Break your request down into smaller and more specific chunks. It could be that you make three requests each covering one part of your original request. And long requests, i.e. 10 years, make the request time consuming but you could ask for 2015, 2014, 2013, etc... going back 10 years. Or ask for the performance data for the 1st MCB-OD installed, then the 2nd, then the 3rd, etc... There's nothing to prevent you from having multiple requests simultaneously.

Finally, if the 1st MCB-OD was installed in 2012 ask for 3 years data not 10 as there will be nothing for 7 years of your request!

J Taylor left an annotation ()

The suggested approach of breaking the request into smaller parts would probably not be successful. The Information Commissioner's Office guidance advises that public authorities can aggregate requests under certain conditions. See the ICO guidance here:

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio...

FOI, Network Rail Limited

Reference number: FOI2015/01288

Dear Ms Wride

Information request

Your correspondence was received by Network Rail on 12th December 2015. I can confirm that your request is being processed under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)/Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). I will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible and in any event by 14th January 2016.

On occasion we may need to consult with third parties about requests, in line with the recommendations in the Code of Practice issued by the then Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs.

If you have any queries please contact me.

Please remember to quote your reference number in all future communications.

Yours sincerely

Emma Wolstenholme
Information Officer

Freedom of Information Team
The Quadrant
Elder Gate
Milton Keynes
MK9 1EN

Telephone: 01908 782405
Email: [Network Rail request email]
Web: www.networkrail.co.uk/foi

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Reference number: FOI2015/01288

 

Dear Ms Wride

 

Please find attached our response to your Environmental Information
Regulations request.

 

If you have any queries please contact me.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Emma Wolstenholme

Information Officer

 

Freedom of Information Team

The Quadrant

Elder Gate

Milton Keynes

MK9 1EN

 

Telephone: 01908 782405

Email: [1][Network Rail request email]

Web: [2]http://www.networkrail.co.uk/foi/

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