Please can you kindly confirm if you have defibrillators on all of the trains including London underground, overground, DLR and Tfl trains that you run? If you do not please confirm how many do and do not have defibrillators on board. Please confirm if you have plans to roll out defibrillators across all the trains you run. Please also confirm if all of the train stations your trains run through also have defibrillators. If they do not - please confirm the names of which ones do not have them.

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TfL Ref: FOI-2071-1920

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 7^th October 2019 asking for information about defibrillators on board trains and at stations.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. 

Specifically you asked:

“Please can you kindly confirm if you have defibrillators on all of the trains including London underground, overground, DLR and Tfl trains that you run? If you do not please confirm how many do and do not have defibrillators on board. Please confirm if you have plans to roll out defibrillators across all the trains you run. Please also confirm if all of the train stations your trains run through also have defibrillators.  If they do not - please confirm the names of which ones do not have them.”

I can confirm that we hold the information you require, broken down by mode below. Note that in addition to the fixed points referenced below, London Underground's Network Incident Response Team and British Transport Police medical officers also carry defibrillators, and take these to incidents where customers have fallen ill.

London Underground:

Defibrillators are not held onboard trains, and there are no currrent plans to do so as it is quicker to give assistance at a station where there are more staff and space to work. Note the ambulance service guidelines which can be seen via the following link:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/154195/response/383204/attach/html/4/A%20E%20Operations%2018March2013.pdf.html

The attached document “London Underground Defibrillators” shows the stations on the Underground where defibrillators can be found.

London Overground:

Defribrillators are not held onboard trains and there are no plans to do so, for the reasons outlined above. Defibrillators are found on Overground stations as follows:

Station	Location
Willesden Junction	Platform 5 next to TRM Office
Acton Central	Ticket Hall (next to ticket office window)
Kensington Olympia	Next to ticket office - Stolen - to be replaced
Imperial Wharf	Platform 2 (next to gateline - Paid side)
Hackney Downs	Ticket Hall (next to gateline) - Stolen - to be replaced
Seven Sisters	Platform 2 (next to office)
Edmonton Green	Ticket Hall (next to gateline) - Stolen - to be replaced
Enfield Town	Stolen - to be replaced
Walthamstow Central	Platform 1
Kilburn High Road	Ticket Hall (next to gateline)
Shepherd's Bush	Ticket Office (Before steps on platform 1)
New Cross Gate	Booking Hall
Brockley	Booking Hall
Sydenham	Booking Hall
Honar Oak Park	Booking Hall
Forest Hill	Platform 1 (next to excess fare window)
Canonbury	Ticket Hall (If entering the station, next to the gateline, on the wall opposite the ticket office window)
Hackney Central	Ticket Hall – If entering the station, to the right of the ticket office window (paid side of the gateline)
Homerton	Underpass between P1 & P2
Dalston Kingsland	Ticket Hall – If entering the station, on the right hand wall, paid side of the gateline, next to the Emergency Help Point
Stratford	Near the steps leading to Platform 12

Docklands Light Railway:

There are no defibrillators on trains and there are no plans to introduce them. There are currently three defibrillators on the DLR network - these are located at: Beckton Depot; Poplar Depot, and; Poplar Depot.

TfL Rail:

There are no defibrillators on trains and no plans to introduce them. Please see the attached spreadsheet – “TfL Rail Defibrillators” – for a list of stations where defibrillators can be found.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access any of it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely,

David Wells

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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