Rail Accident Reports

Class investigation into accidents and near misses involving trains and track workers outside possessions.

Freight train derailment near Waterside, East Ayrshire, 21 January 2006.

Runaway manually-propelled trolley between Larkhall and Barncluith Tunnel, 2 November 2005.

Freight train collision at Leigh-on-Sea, 26 April 2008.

Road-rail vehicle runaway incidents at Brentwood and Snow Hill, 2007.

Runaway of a trolley and subsequent collision at North Rode, Cheshire, 26 May 2024.

Serious injury sustained by a signal technician at Kennington Junction, Oxfordshire, 23 May 2008.

In July 2008, a freight train derailed at a set of points on the entrance to a goods line as it crossed over from a main line at Doncaster

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

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

Containers detaching from freight trains at Scout Green, 7 March 2015 & Deeping St Nicholas, 31 March 2015.

Collision between a train and a tractor, White House Farm User Worked Crossing, 25 September 2011

Accident at Balnamore level crossing, Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, 31 May 2013.

Safety digest into overspeeds in weather-related blanket emergency speed restrictions on Western and Wales routes, 18 and 19 July 2022.

Derailment at Trooperslane near Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, 23 April 2006.

Near miss involving a track worker at Tinsley Green Junction.

Near miss with track workers at Llandegai tunnel, Llandygái, Gwynedd, 13 February 2021.

Collision between a Super Voyager train and a car on the line at Copmanthorpe, 25 September 2006.

Possession irregularity near Manor Park station, 19 March 2006.

Train damaged by collision with an object at Highdyke, Lincolnshire, 19 December 2023.