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Urgent Safety Advice 02/2023: Overspeeding through Spital Junction
Independent report
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.
Safety digest 03/2023: Teignmouth Boat Yard
Independent report
RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss at Teignmouth Boat Yard, Devon, 14 February 2023.
Investigation into an incident at Clapham Common station on London Underground’s Northern Line, 5 May 2023.
RAIB: Annual Report 2022 (published 2023)
Corporate report
Rail Accident Investigation Branch report for the operational period ending 31 December 2022.
RAIB has today released its report into a track worker struck by train near Chalfont & Latimer station, Buckinghamshire, 15 April 2022.
RAIB has today released its report into a near miss at Farnborough North footpath level crossing, 19 May 2022.
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