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  • On 13/11/24 we held our 6th seminar in Birmingham for accident investigators working in the UK rail industry.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into contact between a moving train and an occupied pram at Banbury station, 8 June 2024.

  • RAIB has today issued urgent safety advice addressed to Network Rail and other infrastructure managers, and those companies responsible for maintaining or inspecting longitudinal timber systems.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a passenger trapped in doors and dragged at Enfield Town station, 17 July 2024.

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

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss between a train and heavy goods vehicle near Craven Arms, Shropshire, 22 July 2024.

  • 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 a track worker, Littlehempston, Devon, 13 March 2024.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a collision between a train and an object left on the track at Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, 25 April 2024.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss with track worker at Euxton Junction, Lancashire, 14 March 2024.

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

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a track worker struck by a road-rail vehicle at Braybrooke, 6 February 2024.

  • This document provides a repository of some of the most important areas of learning identified in RAIB’s investigations to date.

  • This document provides a repository of some of the most important areas of learning identified in RAIB’s investigations to date.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss near Nottingham station, 1 January 2024.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a train damaged by a collision with an object at Highdyke, Lincolnshire, 19 December 2023.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into a near miss with a track worker near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, 4 January 2024.

  • RAIB has today released its safety digest into the runaway of an engineering train at London Liverpool Street station, 2 October 2022.

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

  • Details of RAIB investigation reports, safety digests, and urgent safety advice published during 2024.