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84 reports
Of Type Safety digest
  • Passenger train striking rail on the track at Cradlehall, near Inverness, 25 February 2018.

  • Operational incident following signal passed at danger, Bethnal Green, 8 April 2018.

  • Near miss with a train driver at Stafford station, 2 March 2018.

  • Near miss with staff at Clapham Junction, London, 17 January 2018.

  • Derailment of a passenger train near Wimbledon, south-west London, 6 November 2017.

  • Track worker struck by a train near Wimbledon, south-west London, 22 August 2017.

  • Near miss between a train and line-side workers on Dutton Viaduct, Cheshire, 18 September 2017.

  • Passenger train derailment, London Paddington, 20 August 2017.

  • Collision between a passenger train and trolleys near Clapham, North Yorkshire, 25 August 2017.

  • Collision with buffer stops at King’s Cross station, London, 15 August 2017.

  • Near miss at Magdalen Road level crossing, 9 August 2017.

  • Dangerous occurrence at Broad Oak level crossing near Canterbury, Kent, 29 June 2017.

  • Near miss between Audley End and Great Chesterford, 21 April 2017.

  • Near miss between a tamper and steel pile near Kirkham, Lancashire, 15 May 2017.

  • Passenger train collision with buffer stop at Preston station, 1 April 2017.

  • Near miss at Ascot, Berkshire, 7 April 2017.

  • Trains struck a location cabinet door in Chipping Sodbury Tunnel, 20 February 2017.

  • Track workers struck by ballast thrown from the track bed by a passing train near Chathill, Northumberland, 16 February 2017.

  • Near miss at Surbiton, south-west London, 2 November 2016.

  • Near miss with a pedestrian, Trinity Lane footpath crossing, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, 29 November 2016

  • Charter train derailment near Southampton Eastern Docks, 5 November 2016.

  • Collision between a train and an engineering trolley, Stowe Hill Tunnel, 7 December 2016.

  • Near miss at Thorney Marsh Lane level crossing, Castle Cary, Somerset, 26 November 2016.

  • Runaway and derailment of a locomotive, Toton sidings, Nottinghamshire, 30 October 2016

  • Fire on heritage tram at Gynn Square, Blackpool, 24 September 2016.

  • Level crossing collision, near Dymchurch, 10 September 2016.

  • Collision between a car and a train at Yafforth level crossing, North Yorkshire, 3 August 2016

  • Near miss at Kyle Beck near Tollerton, North Yorkshire, 3 August 2016

  • Overspeed incidents, Somerset, 19 July 2016

  • Derailment at Paddington station, London, 16 June 2016

  • Near miss at Maesyfelin bridge, near Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 April 2016

  • Runaway and derailment of a rail vehicle near Bury, Greater Manchester, 22 March 2016.

  • Signal passed at danger near Ketton, Rutland, 24 March 2016.

  • Collision between two freight trains in a work site near Ivybridge, Devon, 27 February 2016