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  • Urgent Safety Advice 01/2023: Passenger doors not centrally controlled and/or locked by train crew

    RAIB has today issued urgent safety advice addressed to heritage railways and other operators of trains who use passenger coaching stock which has passenger doors which are not centrally controlled and/or locked by trai…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 02/2023: Bulkington

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss with a track worker, Bulkington, Warwickshire, 15 November 2022.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADs): October to December 2022

    Data on the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline railway.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Office of Rail and Road
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 01/2023: Highbury Vale

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into the derailment of a tram near Highbury Vale tram stop, Nottingham, 30 September 2022.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice 2023

    Details of RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice published during 2023.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Catalogue of investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Rail accidents and safety (RAI05)

    Data about the accidents and safety of the rail network, produced by Department for Transport.

    • Document type: Statistical data set
    • Part of a collection: Rail statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Transport
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADs): July to September 2022

    Data on the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline railway.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Office of Rail and Road
    • Updated:
  • Rail statistics compendium: April 2021 to March 2022

    Annual summary containing key results from each of our main statistical outputs published in the last 12 months.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Office of Rail and Road
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 07/2022 : Paddington

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss with track workers at Paddington, London, 18 July 2022

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 06/2022: Overspeeds in weather-related blanket emergency speed restrictions

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into overspeeds in weather-related blanket emergency speed restrictions on Western and Wales routes, 18 and 19 July 2022.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 05/2022: North London PTI events

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into passengers trapped in doors and dragged in north London, 23, 27 and 29 June 2022.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 04/2022: Shudehill

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a passenger trapped by tram doors and dragged at Shudehill tram stop, Manchester, 27 May 2022.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADS): April to June 2022

    Statistics showing the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) without authority.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Office of Rail and Road
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 03/2022: Balderton

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a train collision with fallen tree and derailment near Balderton, Cheshire, 26 November 2021.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADS): January to March 2022

    Statistics showing the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) without authority.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Office of Rail and Road
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 02/2022: Near miss with track workers and collision with a tree on the line at Uphill Junction

    Near miss with track workers and collision with a tree on the line at Uphill Junction, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 14 January 2022.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 01/2022: Passenger trapped in doors at Wood Street station

    Passenger trapped in doors and dragged at Wood Street station, north-east London, 14 January 2022.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADs): October to December 2021

    Statistics showing the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) without authority.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Office of Rail and Road
    • Updated:
  • RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice 2022

    Details of RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice published during 2022.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Catalogue of investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 08/2021: Collision at Grosmont

    Collision between a locomotive and a passenger train at Grosmont, 21 September 2021.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated: