Editing London Underground (section)

===Safety===
{{See also|Safety on the London Underground|Suicide on the London Underground|List of London Underground accidents}}
London Underground is authorised to operate trains by the [[Office of Rail and Road]]. {{As of|2013|3|19|alt=As at 19 March 2013}} there had been 310 days since the last major incident,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Item04-Quarterly-HSE-Performance.pdf |title=Quarterly Health, Safety and Environment Performance Reports – Quarter 3, 2012/13 |publisher=Transport for London: Safety and Sustainability Panel |date=19 March 2013 |access-date=19 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130411152714/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Item04%2DQuarterly%2DHSE%2DPerformance.pdf |archive-date=11 April 2013 }}</ref> when a passenger had died after falling on the track.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Item04-Quarterly-Health-Safety-Environment-Performance-Reports-Q4-2011-12.pdf |title=Quarterly Health, Safety and Environment Performance Reports – Quarter 4, 2011/12 |publisher=Transport for London: Safety and Sustainability Panel |date=10 July 2012 |access-date=19 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817203328/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Item04-Quarterly-Health-Safety-Environment-Performance-Reports-Q4-2011-12.pdf |archive-date=17 August 2012}}</ref> {{As of|2015}} there had been nine consecutive years in which no employee fatalities had occurred.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://content.tfl.gov.uk/health-safety-environment-report-2015.pdf |title=TfL HSE Report 14/15 |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=1 December 2015 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208160149/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/health-safety-environment-report-2015.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> A special [[West Ashfield training facility|staff training facility]] was opened in TFL's Ashfield House, [[West Kensington]] in 2010 at a cost of £800,000. Meanwhile, Mayor of London [[Boris Johnson]] decided it should be demolished{{cn|date=March 2025}} along with the [[Earls Court Exhibition Centre]] as part of Europe's biggest regeneration scheme.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1743136/mock-tube-station-gives-staff-real-life-training | first=Michelle |last=Stevens | date=18 January 2010 | title=Mock tube station gives London Underground staff real-life training | publisher=[[Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development]] | access-date=15 August 2024 }}</ref>

In November 2011 it was reported that 80 people had [[Suicide in the United Kingdom|died by suicide]] in the previous year on the London Underground, up from 46 in 2000.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tube suicides rise 74% over last 10 years |url=http://metro.co.uk/2011/11/10/tube-suicides-rise-74-over-last-10-years-214279/ |date=10 November 2011 |access-date=19 April 2013 |newspaper=Metro |location=London |archive-date=6 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506040133/http://metro.co.uk/2011/11/10/tube-suicides-rise-74-over-last-10-years-214279/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Most platforms at deep tube stations have pits, often referred to as 'suicide pits', beneath the track. These were constructed in 1926 to aid drainage of water from the platforms, but also halve the likelihood of a fatality when a passenger falls or jumps in front of a train.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Coats |first1=T. J. |last2=Walter |first2=D. P. |title=Effect of station design on death in the London Underground: observational study |journal=[[British Medical Journal]] |issue=7215 |page=957 |publisher=[[British Medical Association]] |date=9 October 1999 |url=http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/957 |access-date=11 July 2008 |pmid=10514158 |volume=319 |pmc=28249 |doi=10.1136/bmj.319.7215.957 |archive-date=22 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522140008/http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/957 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfnp|Croome|Jackson|1993|p=158}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/468278.stm |title=Pit falls halve tube deaths |work=BBC News |date=8 October 1999 |access-date=20 April 2013 |archive-date=14 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214033342/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/468278.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>