Investigations - Page 5

User-worked crossings “provide the biggest scope for safety improvement”, says Rail Accident Investigation Branch Chief Inspector Andrew Hall.

Slippery rails, resulting from autumn leaves on the line, has been identified as a cause of the collision between two trains near Salisbury last October

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Somewhere in the UK, a road lorry or bus bashes into a railway bridge every five hours, leaving Network Rail to pick up a £5.5 million bill

Salisbury’s Fisherton Tunnel reopened on November 16, 16 days after a crash between two trains that injured 14 people

A Rail Accident Investigation Branch interim report has stated that signal SY31 was set at danger, to protect the movement of the Great Western Railway train

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has commenced a formal investigation into the derailment of a freight train at Kisby

A warning that shortfalls in track inspection could be far more widespread than just those that led to a derailment at Sheffield on November 11 2020.

Rail faces a ‘summer of uncertainty’, according to the Railway Industry Association (RIA). 

Britain lost its record 13-year period without a passenger death in a rail accident on August 12, when ScotRail’s 0638 Aberdeen-Glasgow Queen Street derailed