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08-102
Report 08-102
Metro passenger train derailment, Sylvia Park, 14 April 2008 (incorporating inquiries 08-104 and 08-107) Diesel motor fires on board metro passenger trains, 3 June 2008 and 25 July 2008
Volume Unknown
0 Safety Recommendations
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, 29 September 2011
On Monday 14 April 2008, a brake pad calliper fell from a wheel set on the fourth car of a DMU passenger train at Sylvia Park. The brake calliper fell across the rail and derailed one wheel set on the train. The train was stopped, but not before the wheel set, plus another that subsequently derailed, had re-railed. The brake calliper fell because the securing key had either failed or worked...
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08-111
Report 08-111: Express freight Train 524, derailment, near Puketutu, North Island Main Trunk, 3 October 2008
Volume R116
1 Safety Recommendation
of which 1 is open
Published on Thursday, 4 August 2011
On Saturday 3 October 2008, the second-to-last wagon on express freight Train 524, wagon UK9007, conveying 2 loaded liquid petroleum gas (LPG) tanks, derailed between Puketutu and Te Kuiti on the NIMT while travelling around a 260-metre (m) radius right-hand curve at the posted line speed of 60 kilometres per hour (km/h).
The locomotive engineer stopped the train after hearing an automated...
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08-112
Report 08-112: safe working irregularity resulting in a collision and derailment at Cass crossing station on the Midland Line, 8 November 2008
Volume R155
0 Safety Recommendations
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, 10 March 2011
On Saturday 8 November 2008, eastbound express freight Train 848, conveying 30 loaded coal wagons, overran the fouling board2 on the main line during a scheduled crossing movement at Cass Station on the Midland Line. Westbound express freight Train 845 entered the loop before the locomotive engineer on Train 848 radioed to confirm that he had stopped his train short of the fouling board.
The...
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09-102
Report 09-102: Passenger fatality after falling between platform and passenger Train 8125, Newmarket West station, 1 July 2009
Volume R156
0 Safety Recommendations
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, 10 March 2011
On Wednesday 1 July 2009, an elderly male passenger who was vision-impaired had just alighted from passenger Train 8125 on the Down platform at Newmarket West station. He was walking along the platform as the train left and he veered into the side of the moving train, spun around and fell through the gap between the train and the platform edge onto the track below. The passenger was fatally...
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08-109
Report 08-109: Passenger express Train 9113, platform overrun resulting in signal passed at danger, Fruitvale Road Station, North Auckland Line, 4 September 2008
Volume R154
1 Safety Recommendation
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, 23 December 2010
On Thursday 4 September 2008 at about 0827, push/pull commuter passenger Train 9113, travelling on the Down Main North Auckland line from Waitakere to Britomart, overran Fruitvale Road Station platform. The train was travelling at 36 kilometres per hour (km/h) when it passed the end of the platform and had slowed to 31 km/h when it passed Stop and Proceed Signal 2097 displaying a Stop...
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07-114
Report 07-114: Derailment caused by a wheel-bearing failure, Huntly, 19 October 2007, and 11 subsequent wheel-bearing failures at various locations during the following 12 month period
Volume R153
1 Safety Recommendation
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, 9 December 2010
Between Friday 19 October 2007 and Sunday 5 October 2008, there were 12 occurrences when wheel-bearings failed on wagons travelling on express freight trains at various locations in the North and South Island.
Seven of the 12 wheel-bearing failures resulted in the affected wagon derailing, and causing a number of following wagons to also derail. The derailments caused extensive damage to the...
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09-103
Report 09-103: Passenger Train 1608, collision with slip and derailment, Tunnel 1, Wairarapa Line, Maymorn, 23 July 2009 (incorporating investigation 08-106, collision with slip and derailment on the Johnsonville Line)
Volume R152
4 Safety Recommendations
of which 4 are open
Published on Thursday, 28 October 2010
On the evening of Thursday 23 July 2009, the Wellington region was experiencing a storm that brought heavy rain and strong winds. At 1817, a scheduled commuter train travelling from Wellington to Masterton with approximately 240 passengers and crew in 5 carriages, collided with a slip that partially blocked the northern portal of Tunnel 1 on the Wairarapa Line. This point was about 4 km north of...
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09-101
Report 09-101 (incorporating 08-105): express freight train derailments owing to the failure of bogie side frames, various locations on the North Island Main Trunk, between 21 June 2008 and 7 May 2009
Volume R151
1 Safety Recommendation
of which 1 is open
Published on Thursday, 21 October 2010
Between 21 June 2008 and 7 May 2009, 3 express freight trains derailed at various locations on the North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) line. All 3 derailments were caused by the failure and collapse of bogie side frames on wagons. The side frame failures were all similar in that they started with a fatigue crack that propagated over a period of days rather than weeks, through the box section of the...
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07-105
Report 07-105: push/pull passenger train sets overrunning platforms, various stations within the Auckland suburban rail network, between 9 June 2006 and 10 April 2007
Volume R150
5 Safety Recommendations
of which 3 are open
Published on Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Between June 2006 and April 2007 the Transport Accident Investigation Commission (the Commission) launched inquiries into 5 separate platform overrun events on the Auckland suburban rail network. Because there appeared to be a number of common factors contributing to the overruns, they have been combined into this one report.
All overruns involved push/pull train sets designed and modified in...
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08-110
Report 08-110, train control operating irregularity, leading to potential low-speed, head-on collision, Amokura, 23 September 2008
Volume R149
3 Safety Recommendations
of which 1 is open
Published on Thursday, 5 August 2010
A train controller starting his morning shift on 23 September 2008 unknowingly planned to direct a freight train along a line that was occupied by another freight train, which was standing awaiting routing through an area where a signalling fault was under repair. He was not aware the second train was stationary on the line. A potential low-speed, head-on collision was avoided when the first...
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