The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has called for Network Rail to work more collaboratively with the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and Scottish local authorities to ensure that railway-related flood risk is managed appropriately.
The recommendation comes as part of RAIB’s report into the embankment washout under a passenger train…
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has undertaken an investigation into a near miss between track workers and a train near the town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire.
At 1.30am on 15 November, a train driver reported a near miss with track workers near to Bulkington, approximately 6.4km south of Nuneaton. The…
A near miss between two Network Rail track workers and a train at Paddington Station has been attributed to "unsafe" working practices adopted by the team.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its safety digest into the incident, which occurred on 18 July 2022. At around 1.17am on…
This video is from NCE’s Future of Rail conference 2022. In this session, Rail Accident and Investigations Branch (RAIB) principal inspectorate Chris Ford looks back at major rail accidents in the UK during the past half a century and the subsequent lessons learnt from them. Among others, Ford focusses on the fatal…
A collision between a passenger train and maintenance equipment in Oxfordshire occurred due to "weaknesses" in checks undertaken by the maintenance team, after no one noticed the equipment had been left on the track.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into a collision between a passenger train…
A failure to learn from previous fatal accidents on the UK’s railways contributed to the death of a tack worker who was killed by a passenger train in south London.
In its final report, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) concludes that Tyler Byrne was “distracted” and “unaware of his position…
Track worker safety continues to be “a matter of considerable concern”, according to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB).
In its Annual Report for 2021 – published yesterday – the RAIB highlighted the ongoing risks to those working on the railways. The report says: “The potential for brief lapses in concentration…
An investigation into a near miss in Somerset has revealed that two trackers moved to a position of safety with just two seconds to spare.
The RAIB report into the incident reveals that the two workers failed to respond to the train’s warning signals and only scrambled to safety once…
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has launched an investigation after a track worker was struck by a London Underground train earlier this month.
The worker was hospitalised with injuries after being struck near Chalfont & Latimer station by a Metropolitan line service running from Baker Street to Chesham. The train…
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Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) chief inspector Simon French joins NCE senior reporter Catherine Kennedy to discuss the final report into the fatal Carmont derailment in August 2020. The accident occurred after a passenger train collided with debris washed from…
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