Rail accidents are relatively rare, but their consequences can be serious, with many injuries and loss of life. A high-speed collision or derailment is inevitably a high-profile event in the media and can cause transport disruption for a long period of time. Even small, more frequent incidents can have significant operational and financial consequences.

Diadilos Solutions undertakes the investigation of railway accidents and incidents. Our team of staff & partners includes scientists and engineers with extensive training and experience in incident management, investigating all factors involved in order to clarify the causes of each incident.

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Indicatively, the services provided include incidents such as:

• Derailments

• Collisions at any point along the lines

• Collisions with vehicles at railway crossings

• Insufficient maintenance of railway tracks and/or rolling stock

• Failures and breakdowns of mechanical - electrical equipment of facilities

• Failures and mechanical breakdowns of rolling stock

• Investigation of causes of fires & explosions

• Assessment of infections

• Injury and/or death of personnel

• Injury and/or death to third parties

• Investigation of cause of damage to transported goods/cargo

Investigation procedures include, but are not limited to:

• Witness statements (driver, staff, passengers, etc.)

• Inspection of railway lines at the scene of the incident

• Inspection of signaling systems

• Inspection of rolling stock locomotives, passenger carriages and freight wagons​

• Railcars

• Maintenance of lines, signaling system and rolling stock

• Staff training audits