Research and analysis

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 .

From:
Rail Accident Investigation Branch
Published
16 November 2023

Documents

Investigating the derailment of a passenger train at Carmont

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Establishing a timeline from electronic data

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Carmont Ground Investigation for RAIB Conference Nov23

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Derailment mechanism

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Investigating the fires

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Investigating organisational factors in 10 easy steps

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Interviewing to elicit best evidence

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Weather Investigation

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Details

This year’s Rail Accident Investigators seminar welcomed speakers from Network Rail, along with Professor Amina Memon from Royal Holloway, University of London. Allan Spence kindly introduced the seminar with a keynote speech. There were also presentations from some of our own inspectors.

The presentations included:

  • An overview of the derailment at Carmont
  • Establishing timelines from train data
  • Investigating Geotechnical issues at Carmont
  • Understanding the derailment mechanism at Carmont -Investigating the fires
  • Investigating organisational factors in 10 easy steps
  • Interviewing to elicit best evidence
  • Using weather data in investigations

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Published 16 November 2023