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Rail Accident Investigation Branch

Type: Organization

Name: Rail Accident Investigation Branch

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 reports

First Capital Connect

Maintenance delays contributed to King’s Lynn to London rail accident

Delays in Network Rail?s maintenance programme were to blame for an accident in which part of a King?s Lynn to London train travelling at 80mph came off, shattering windows and injuring a passenger.Services on the King’s Lynn to Cambridge railway line ... [Published EDP 24 - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Network Rail, London, Rail Accident Investigation Branch, First Capital Connect

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Katie Littlewood: Was train death girl wearing headphones and text friends? She stepped in front of 60mph express without looking

Was train death girl wearing headphones and text friends? She stepped in front of 60mph express without looking Katie Littlewood had been on her way to a Saturday job at charity shopThe GP's daughter died after she was hit by a train in January last yearKatie ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 17 2013]

Entities: Network Rail, Andrea Evans, Rail Accident Investigation Branch, Andrew Rose

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

East Midlands Trains

Passengers delayed after train gets stuck on track

PASSENGERS faced major disruption at Nottingham Station after a freight train got stuck at a track changeover point.All routes through Nottingham were affected, with some services delayed by up to 90 minutes after the incident at about 9.40am yesterd ... [Published Nottingham Post - May 16 2013]

Entities: East Midlands Trains, London, Rail Accident Investigation Branch, Jay Simpson, Northern Rail

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Bishop's Stortford: Inquest To Probe Rail Death

You may also like AAn inquest will be held today (Thursday May 16th) into the death of a teenage girl killed after being hit by a train at a foot crossing in Bishop's Stortford. Katie Littlewood, 15, was struck at Johnson's Footpath Crossing in January ... [Published Heart Radio - May 16 2013]

Entities: Inquest, Network Rail, Rail Accident Investigation Branch

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

Glasgow Queen Street worker hurt by runaway train

A WORKER was seriously injured when a runaway rail vehicle hit scaffolding during work in a tunnel near Queen Street station in Glasgow, a report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch revealed today. A road-rail maintenance vehicle, which had no lights ... [Published The Scotsman - May 14 2013]

Entities: Glasgow, Workers, Gradient, Rail Accident Investigation Branch, UK Department for Transport

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Network Rail

Bad paperwork saw staff on rail line

Changes to how paperwork is filled in have been suggested after a section of railway track near Dunblane was reopened while engineers were still carrying out work.The incident happened on the Stirling to Blackford line on 28 October 2012.A Rail Accident ... [Published BBC - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Network Rail, Rail Accident Investigation Branch, Workers

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 2 reports

First Great Western

Somerset level crossing death: Barriers down 'longer than normal'

The scene of the collisionBARRIERS at a level crossing were held down 'longer than normal' on the morning a man was killed when his car was hit by a train.In a report released by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), it says the automatic half-barriers ... [Published This is the West Country - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Rail Accident Investigation Branch, Office of Rail Regulation, First Great Western, British Transport Police, Debenhams plc

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 2 reports

Inquests opened following Scunthorpe bound train incident on level crossing

INQUESTS have been opened into the deaths of the two victims of the Great Coates level crossing crash which involved a Scunthorpe bound train.Paul Hodge, 47, of Sutcliffe Avenue, Grimsby, and David Williams, 40, of Taylor Street, Cleethorpes, both worked ... [Published Scunthorpe Telegraph - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Inquest, Paul Hodge, Paul Kelly, British Transport Police

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Signalman fined in crossing death case

TRAGIC: Jane Harding’s car was hit by a train.NETWORK Rail has been fined £450,000 for the death of a woman who was killed by a train at a level crossing.Jane Harding, aged 52, a hairdresser at a salon in Bosbury, died after the car she was travelling ... [Published Ledbury Reporter - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Signalman, Network Rail, Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, Rail Accident Investigation Branch

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 2 reports

Two killed as 60mph train hits car on level crossing in Grimsby

Two men died after their car was hit by a train on a railway crossing. The passenger train was travelling at 60mph when it ploughed into the vehicle on the crossing at Great Coates in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, last night.One of the men in the car died at ... [Published The Independent - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Rail Accident Investigation Branch, BBC British Broadcasting Corp, British Transport Police

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It added: "Network Rail did not follow up a proposal in 2007 to install a footbridge after analysis has shown that the benefits of so doing would exceed the costs."

Katie Littlewood: Was train death girl wearing headphones and text friends? She stepped in front ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 17 2013]

A spokesman said: "The train went through the points – a piece of track"

Passengers delayed after train gets stuck on track [Published Nottingham Post - May 16 2013]

A preliminary report by the UKUK Department for Transport’s investigation agency stated: "A person working on this scaffolding was seriously injured. Other members of staff working on the track were able to move clear of the runaway vehicle because they either heard its approach or were warned by mobile telephone."

Glasgow Queen Street worker hurt by runaway train [Published The Scotsman - May 14 2013]

The RAIB said a preliminary examination had "shown that the runaway occurred because the brakes acting on the rail wheels were inadequate to stop the vehicle on the gradient and the road to rail transfer was not carried out correctly"

Rail worker hurt by runaway vehicle [Published BBC - May 14 2013]

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Maintenance delays contributed to King’s Lynn t... [Published EDP 24 - 15 hours ago]
Poor maintenance caused cable crash [Published BBC - May 21 2013]
Today's News: Tragic rail victim Katie Littlewo... [Published The Journal - May 17 2013]
Katie Littlewood: Was train death girl wearing ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 17 2013]
Passengers delayed after train gets stuck on t... [Published Nottingham Post - May 16 2013]
Bishop's Stortford: Inquest To Probe Rail Death [Published Heart Radio - May 16 2013]
Glasgow Queen Street worker hurt by runaway train [Published The Scotsman - May 14 2013]
Rail worker hurt by runaway vehicle [Published BBC - May 14 2013]
Bad paperwork saw staff on rail line [Published BBC - Apr 25 2013]
Somerset level crossing death: Barriers down 'l... [Published This is the West Country - Apr 22 2013]
Barriers 'down longer' in rail crash [Published BBC - Apr 22 2013]
Inquests opened following Scunthorpe bound trai... [Published Scunthorpe Telegraph - Apr 15 2013]
Signalman fined in crossing death case [Published Ledbury Reporter - Apr 15 2013]
Inquests opened following Great Coates level cr... [Published Scunthorpe Telegraph - Apr 15 2013]
Two killed as 60mph train hits car on level cro... [Published The Independent - Apr 10 2013]
Crash on rail crossing kills two [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013]
Rail services between Lake District and Manches... [Published Westmorland Gazette - Jan 25 2013]
Rail services between Lake District and Manches... [Published Westmorland Gazette - Jan 24 2013]
Rail chaos forecast after train derails on main... [Published Herald Scotland - Nov 05 2012]
Scottish News: Car driver hurt in train collision [Published West Lothian Courier - Oct 07 2012]
Scottish News: Car driver hurt in train collision [Published Perthshire Advertiser - Oct 07 2012]
Repair failure blamed for Waverley train derail... [Published Herald Scotland - Aug 31 2012]