{"id":49340,"date":"2018-11-22T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=49340"},"modified":"2018-11-22T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:28:05","slug":"railway-safety-worker-killed-by-train-at-stoats-nest-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/railway-safety-worker-killed-by-train-at-stoats-nest-junction\/49340\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway safety worker killed by train at Stoats Nest Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A male railway safety worker has died after being hit by an oncoming train between Purley and Coulsdon South stations on the mainline between London and Brighton<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gem-c-govspeak govuk-govspeak direction-ltr\">\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The member of railway safety staff was carrying out protection duties for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/engineering-payment-problems\/49174\/\">engineering<\/a> work on the line, when he was struck by the passenger train travelling at 70 mph.<\/p>\n<p>He was placing red lamps and explosive warning devices up and down the tracks as part of his safety work at around 12:27am on 6th November.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/rail-accident-investigation-branch\">Rail Accident Investigation Branch<\/a> has said it will look into the incident with a full investigation to identify the cause of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation will consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the reasons why the member of staff was in the place where he was struck<\/li>\n<li>the arrangements in place for his protection while he was carrying out his duties<\/li>\n<li>the risks associated with the protection of engineering work on the line<\/li>\n<li>any underlying management factors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The RAIB said: &#8220;Our investigation is independent of any investigation by the railway industry, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/orr.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"external\">Office of Rail and Road<\/a>, or the British Transport Police.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>&#8220;We will publish our findings, including any safety recommendations, at the conclusion of our investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male railway worker has died after being hit by an oncoming train between Purley and Coulsdon South stations on the mainline between London and Brighton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[636,432,928,753,280],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-engineering","8":"tag-health-safety","9":"tag-rail-network","10":"tag-safety","11":"tag-transport"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Railway safety worker killed by train at Stoats Nest Junction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A male railway worker has died after being hit by an oncoming train between Purley and Coulsdon South stations on the mainline between London and Brighton.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/railway-safety-worker-killed-by-train-at-stoats-nest-junction\/49340\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Railway safety worker killed by train at Stoats Nest Junction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A male railway safety worker has died after being hit by an oncoming train between Purley and Coulsdon South stations on the mainline between London and Brighton.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/railway-safety-worker-killed-by-train-at-stoats-nest-junction\/49340\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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