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The bridge is on Breakspear Road South, not Harefield Road or Breakspear Road which are valid names of other roads in the local area. It is between Ickenham and Harefield, not in South Ruislip. So that part of the information on the bridge plate is just plain wrong, and could result in emergency...

As well as the Council recycling centre, Newyears Green Lane also gives access to composting sites which handle plant waste on a large scale (producing a rather strong smell which regularly drifts over Ruislip). These are served by very large lorries which are among those which have hit the...

The time that it now takes to reinstate services is hardly affected by the investigation. RAIB will examine the scene, and while that is going on preparations will be made to revover the damaged vehicles. In the case of the Carlisle derailment, the investigators released the whole site within...

See https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1054063/R012022_220113_Llangennech.pdf , paragraph 54 and figure 16

If you can think of any other factors in the accident that could result in a recommendation for a safety improvement, and whose investigation would not give rise to accusations of wasting public money, then I'm sure RAIB would be pleased to hear from you.

That's fine if there is room for a double-ended siding, with a further spur off it to leave vehicles in. A simple single-ended siding which the train reverses into to detach a vehicle is much more suitable in a location where space is restricted, as here. That's why sidings have continued to be...

My apologies- corrected

DW3 is a wire-worked semaphore, and is visible, still at 'clear', in the background of figure 8, taken after the derailment. The locking and the (incorrectly wired) detection permitted the signaller to clear it, as the report explains.

That shouldn't have happened. I'm sure if you let them know on enquiries@raib.gov.uk a suitable response will be forthcoming. Stuart J RAIB (retired)

CDL followed the HSE report into falls from train doors, published in 1993: Passenger Falls From Train Doors. Accidents involving stock fitted with CDL have also occurred where people have been unable to open the door and have tried to join or leave the train through the droplight.

There is a drawing (dated 1841) of just such an arrangement on page 71 of Andrew Dow's book The Railway: British Track since 1804. I compiled the entry on the Railways Archive site, and I'm fairly sure that pair of accidents in 1877 were the only derailments from that cause that had published...

Going back a bit, I seem to remember a lot of fuss about The Penguin Guide to the Railways of Britain when it was published in 1981. People were writing to magazines with pages and pages of corrections to errors they had spotted. Taking heed of this, I never bought a copy, so I now have no...

Selsdon station was still lit by gas until closure in 1983:

If you read the RAIB report, paragraph 183 makes it clear that there is no record of any check being done after the work was complete.

Not mentioned so far is Denham East Junction to Denham South Junction, built by the GWR as part of the "Uxbridge loop" project, but never used because the connection from Uxbridge (High Street) to Vine Street was never built, mainly because the Metropolitan's line was likely to be more than...

I stayed at the Station Hotel, Perth in 1974 on a family holiday. We used the day Motorail from Kensington, and stayed overnight before driving on to Skye. My chief memory, as a 14-year-old enthusiast, was finding that the blankets on the bed were branded LMS. Suddenly the past was connected to...

Sorry, they did not. You may be thinking of the 1500 and 9400 class panniers.

RAIB investigations do not attribute blame or liability.

Hmmmm.....not quite. RAIB does not share an HQ with AAIB. Our Farnborough office is on the same piece of government-owned land as AAIB's HQ, but they are separate buildings. There is some shared admin, mainly media handling, but otherwise both organisations rely on DfT for HR and pay and have...

I don't think here was a standard method of doing things. If the line was to be retained as a passenger route, singling would be a slightly more complicated process than simply lifting one line.