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  • Signals passed at danger (SPADs): January to March 2024

    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 04/2024: Braybrooke

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a track worker struck by a road-rail vehicle at Braybrooke, 6 February 2024.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Summary of learning 10: Management assurance - v1. May 2024

    This document provides a repository of some of the most important areas of learning identified in RAIB’s investigations to date.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Summary of learning 9: Wrong side failures of signalling - v2. May 2024

    This document provides a repository of some of the most important areas of learning identified in RAIB’s investigations to date.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Summaries of learning
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 03/2024: Nottingham

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss near Nottingham station, 1 January 2024.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 02/2024: Highdyke

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a train damaged by a collision with an object at Highdyke, Lincolnshire, 19 December 2023.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 01/2024: Fishguard

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss with a track worker near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, 4 January 2024.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety digest 08/2022: Liverpool Street Station

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into the runaway of an engineering train at London Liverpool Street station, 2 October 2022.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADs): October to December 2023

    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:
  • RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice 2024

    Details of RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice published during 2024.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADs): July to September 2023

    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 06/2023: Blackford-Gleneagles

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into trains overspeeding between Blackford and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, 15 July 2023

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Safety Digest 05/2023: Wood Green and Melton Lane level crossing

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into overspeeding incidents at Wood Green, and Melton Lane level crossing, 11 and 12 June 2023

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • 5th Rail Accident Investigators Seminar

    On 15/11/23 RAIB held its 5th seminar in Birmingham for accident investigators working in the UK rail industry .

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Rail safety statistics: April 2022 to March 2023

    Rail safety statistics on mainline rail, London Underground, and other non-Network Rail networks (trams, metros, other light rail, minor and heritage railways).

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Office of Rail and Road
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADs): April to June 2023

    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 04/2023: Beeston Centre tram stop

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a passenger dragged at Beeston Centre tram stop, Nottingham, 22 February 2023.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Urgent Safety Advice 02/2023: Overspeeding through Spital Junction

    RAIB has today issued urgent safety advice addressed to Network Rail and transport undertakings who operate trains on the East Coast Main Line through Peterborough station.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
    • Updated:
  • Signals passed at danger (SPADs): January to March 2023

    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 03/2023: Teignmouth Boat Yard

    RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss at Teignmouth Boat Yard, Devon, 14 February 2023.

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