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  • Data on the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline railway.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into overspeeding at Grantham South Junction, 26 September 2025.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss between a passenger train and a van near Millbrook, Bedfordshire, 25 September 2025.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a derailment at Hopetown Junction, Darlington, 31 January 2026.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into an overspeed at Cambridge Junction, Hertfordshire, 11 December 2025.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss at Helpston manually controlled barrier level crossing, 21 October 2025.

  • Data on the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline railway.

  • RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice published during 2026.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss with track workers near London Bridge station, 30 July 2025.

  • RAIB has today issued urgent safety advice addressed to Network Rail, other infrastructure managers, and those companies supplying or monitoring relevant equipment.

  • Data on the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline railway.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into the collision of a train load with a footbridge on Dean Forest Railway, 14 August 2025.

  • On 19/11/25 we held our 7th seminar in Birmingham for accident investigators working in the UK rail industry.

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

  • Data on the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline railway.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a person struck by train on Gartell Light Railway, Somerset, 17 April 2025.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into overspeeds in blanket speed restrictions, south Wales, 27 January 2025.

  • Data on the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline railway.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss with track workers at Morton Junction, 27 November 2024.

  • Data on the number of signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline railway.