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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) independently investigates accidents to improve railway safety, and inform the industry and the public. RAIB works with the Department for Transport .
Find reports of RAIB investigations into rail accidents and incidents
Overspeeding at Cambridge Junction, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 11 December 2025.
Roles at the Rail Accident Investigation Branch and how to apply for jobs.
Derailment of a freight train at Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, 6 September 2024.
RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice by year of publication.
Derailment of a passenger train at Carmont, Aberdeenshire, 12 August 2020.
RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss with track workers near London Bridge station, 30 July 2025.
The Regulations place a duty on railway industry bodies (infrastructure managers, railway operators, or maintainers), involved in an accident or incident, to notify us.
RAIB has today released its report into a derailment of a freight train at Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, 6 September 2024.
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