BRITAIN’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (Raib) has published an interim report into a fatal accident at 06.07 on November 9 involving an LRV which derailed and overturned on the approach to Sandilands Junction on the Croydon Tramlink network south of London.
BRITAIN’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (Raib) has launched an investigation into a fatal accident at 06.13 on November 9 involving an LRV which derailed and overturned on the approach to Sandilands Junction on the Croydon Tramlink network south of London.
ACCORDING to an International Union of Railways’ (UIC) report released on October 4, improved safety in railway operations led to a 14% drop in 2015 in accidents compared with 2014, and a 32% decrease since 2006.
THE US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the driver of a Washington DC - New York Amtrak Northeast Regional train which derailed near Philadelphia on May 12 2015 was likely to have been distracted by radio traffic causing him to forget where he was.
BRITAIN's Rail Accident Investigation Branch (Raib) says 2015 was the eighth year in a row that there were no passenger fatalities resulting from train accidents, and that Britain's railways remain among the safest in Europe.
THE driver of an Arriva Stadler 2/8 EMU was killed after the train hit a mobile crane on a level crossing at Dalfsen on the Zwolle-Emmen line at 09.00 CET.
German lead prosecutor Mr Wolfgang Gliese says 'human error' by a train dispatcher caused a head-on crash in Bad Aibling, Germany, on February 9 which killed 11 people, including both drivers.
TRANSPORT Canada has uncovered serious violations under Canada's Railway Safety Act and the Fisheries Act in connection with the horrific 2013 oil train derailment in Lac-Mégantic.
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into the cause of a derailment of an Amtrak train on the North East Corridor (NEC) in Philadelphia on the evening of May 12, which left seven people dead and over 200 injured.
THREE investigations have been launched in France following a rear-end collision on July 17 between a TER passenger train and a TGV at Denguin, 14km west of Pau on the Tarbes - Dax main line.
