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Find reports of RAIB investigations into rail accidents and incidents
The home of Rail Accident Investigation Branch on GOV.UK. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) independently investigates accidents to improve railway safety, and inform the industry and the public.
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 updated report on a pedestrian struck by a train at Lady Howard footpath and bridleway crossing, Surrey, 21 April 2022.
Pedestrian struck by a train at Lady Howard footpath and bridleway crossing, Surrey, 21 April 2022.
Investigation into the fatal injury of a passenger at Stratford London Underground station, 26 December 2023.
RAIB has today released its report into a train striking debris at Yarnton near Hanborough, Oxfordshire, 10 February 2023.
Near miss involving a freight train driver and a passenger train near to Nottingham station, 1 January 2024.
Investigation into a train striking a tree near Broughty Ferry, Angus, 27 December 2023.
Train striking debris at Yarnton near Hanborough, Oxfordshire, 10 February 2023.
RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice by year of publication.
Derailment of a passenger train at Carmont, Aberdeenshire, 12 August 2020.
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Details of RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice published during 2024.
Embankment washout under a passenger train at Haddiscoe, 30 January 2022.
Investigation into a member of staff struck by a train at St Philips Marsh depot, Bristol, 26 September 2023.
Investigation into a collision at Aviemore station on the Strathspey Railway, Highland, 29 September 2023.
Details of RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice published during 2023.
Collision between passenger trains at Salisbury Tunnel Junction, Wiltshire, 31 October 2021.
Freight train derailment at London Gateway, Essex, 24 December 2021.
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