02/10/2024 – Update: SARS is organizing a ‘repeat’ of this webinar, available for registration here. I joined a webinar yesterday, discussing the rail crash of a high speed train in Spain about 11 years ago. The presenter gave evidence during the court prosecutions, which resulted in the safety director being sentenced to 2.5 years in…
Read the report here. There were 6 people involved, but somehow two was ‘separated’ from the group. The group separated with different understanding: As in the report, there are a few practices that is I think easily common, but not safe: During some of the track possessions I’ve seen, all of these happened. Fortunately no…
The RAIB Report can be referred here. All rights reserved to Crown copyright 2023. R082023_230803_Loversall_Carr_Junction The cause of the accident is that the driver failed to break, most likely due to micro-sleep (my guess). Previously he only had to drive to work for six minutes, but ‘new’ work arrangement needed him to drive for one…
A train stopped where part of the track has been washed out. I think pictures explain it best. As per the picture, the train has already gone a bit over the washout/hole. The driver stopped the train and wanted to reverse it but the car/end that was over the hole, started to lean over. The…
This is a relatively simple and short report. The accident happened when a train hit a lookout, during a trackwork operation in a red zone (meaning people doing work on tracks, while trains are still running on them). The lookout moved from his position and got too close and into the path of the train….
