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NRA Safety Achievement of the Year 2024: Network Rail with Loccioni

Safety Achievement of the Year award in the National Rail Awards 2024 went to Network Rail partnered with Loccioni for the FELIX Automated Measurement Trolley.

Health and wellbeing 16 Sept

News

Safety breach costs HS2 contractor £60,000 after worker falls 11 metres

The engineer, employed by EMC Elite Engineering Services Ltd (EMC), was repairing a conveyor at Chalfont Lane in West Hyde, Hertfordshire.

Safety 20 Aug

News

TfL campaign aims to deter aggressive customers

Transport for London is launching a new campaign to tackle violence and aggression against its staff, based on the message ‘Abuse has consequences’.

Staff 19 Aug

News

Stranded trains study calls for more focus on passenger welfare

Rail industry plans for dealing with stranded trains require greater focus on the safety and welfare of passengers involved, according to a report for the Office of Rail and Road and Transport Focus.

Safety 2 Aug

News

Level crossing safety warning issued as school holidays begin

Network Rail is targeting children and parents with messaging about safety at level crossings as frightening video footage shows near misses with trains.

Safety 15 Jul

News

Isolated safety systems let train move with doors open

A passenger train was able to start moving with several doors open and before the conductor had completed the dispatch process because safety systems had been isolated in an attempt to correct a fault, RAIB has found.

Safety 2 Jul

News

Central door locking to safeguard Scottish Mk 1s

Locomotive Services Limited’s Royal Scot arm and the Scottish Railway Preservation Society have entered into a partnership that will enable the SRPS’s Mk 1 coaching stock to be upgraded with central door locking (CDL), thereby ensuring its long-term survival on the main line.

Rolling stock 1 Jul

News

RAIB reports on two Tube trap-and-drag incidents

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has made several recommendations to London Underground Ltd following two incidents last year where passengers were dragged along the platform after their coats were caught in train doors.

RAIB 27 Jun

Govia Thameslink Railway 700103 at London Bridge. JACK BOSKETT/RAIL.

News

Rail Safety Week 2024: GTR invests £2.5 million to tackle antisocial behaviour on trains

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has announced a £2.5 million investment to combat abuse and disorder on its network through a new Antisocial Behaviour Improvement Plan.

rail 26 Jun

News

RAIB report finds distracted driver sped through red signal

An accident report has found that an electric locomotive ran 750 metres beyond a signal at danger (red) last August because it was travelling too fast to stop in time.

Safety 18 Jun

Cancelled sign Beast from East 2018 ALAMY M67DBC

Feature

Railway dependability: are we too risk-averse?

Every week now, there is a significant infrastructure failure. There is a growing perception that the railway is less dependable than before.

Health and wellbeing 6 Jun

The crumpled wreckage of the Birmingham-Glasgow TPO at Rickerscote in March 1996. The collision claimed the life of a postal worker. PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Comment

What do passengers want and expect?

No passenger wants an unsafe railway, but do they want one that closes to avoid any risk?

Passengers 30 May

Workers’ repairing a railway line. NETWORK RAIL.

Feature

Managing fatigue risk for workers’ wellbeing

SARAH BOOTH and Dr CRISTINA RUSCITTO, of Baines Simmons Safety Services, discuss areas for improvements in fatigue risk management for the UK heavy and light rail industry

Health and wellbeing 28 May

Comment

A safer and a better railway

In an extract from his speech at the Rail 100 Breakfast Club in January, Rail Safety and Standards Board Chief Operating Officer Johnny Schute outlines the path of standards needed to future-proof our railways

Investigations 20 May

A ScotRail driver escaped injury on December 27, when his Inter7City train struck a fallen tree. PAUL MCSWEENEY MSP/ASLEF

Comment

We are getting warning lights across the whole network…

Train drivers worry that a gradual lowering of rail’s dependability reflects managed decline of the infrastructure. ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan sets out his concerns to PAUL CLIFTON

Maintenance and refurb 17 May