Government response
Not tracked (historical inquiry)
Delivery
No statement from the addressee found
Recommendation 25: Body-to-bogie connection failure modes
From Formal Inquiry: Potters Bar derailment of 10 May 2002 — Final Report (RSSB FI2013/F), published 18 March 2005.
Recommendation
Standards that prescribe strength requirements for body-to-bogie connections in vehicles should require that the potential modes of failure are determined at the design stage, and that action be taken to ensure that the integrity of the vehicle body structure is not compromised if the connection is overloaded.
Jurisdiction: UK-wide
Page: 155
Reference: 5.22.3
Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched (last checked 27 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.
Source
Inquiry
Potters Bar Investigation
Report
Formal Inquiry: Potters Bar derailment of 10 May 2002 — Final Report (RSSB FI2013/F)
18 Mar 2005
Themes and tags
Recommendation made
21.6 years ago