Topic: Crash

Track level image of damaged tracks with derailed wagons in background

UK watchdog says Carlisle freight derailment had multiple oversights

Exactly twelve months after the incident that wrecked infrastructure at Petteril Bridge Junction, Carlisle, in northwest England, the national inspectorate has released its final report. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has unveiled its findings...Read more

16-10-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Night fire with flames rising into the sky at Llangennech in Wales after crash

UK: No prosecutions over Welsh train incident

The UK safety watchdog, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, released its final report on track damage between Pencoed and Llanharan, in South Wales, on 6 March 2021. That thankfully low-key incident brought memories of the far better known...Read more

01-03-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Kisby freight train collision: driver did not telephone signaller

UK’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued its report on the collision between an intermodal working and an agricultural equipment trailer at Kisby, an accident that happened on 19 August last year. RAIB has...Read more

01-11-2022|1 comment|author: Simon Walton

UK investigators deliberate over damaging Doncaster accident

A signal passed at danger is always a serious matter, and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch is treating an incident earlier this month at Doncaster in just such terms. Two freight trains became rather more...Read more

25-07-2022|Comment|author: Simon Walton