R15H0021 – Derailment of Canadian National Railway freight train U70451-02 in Gogama, Ontario on March 7, 2015
TSB full-text report (R15H0021)
TSB Recommendation R17-02
From the TSB final report
The Board recommends that:
“The Department of Transport acquire rail surface condition data, including information on localized surface collapse, rail end batter and crushed heads, and incorporate it into its risk-based planning approach for targeted regulatory track inspections. (R17-02)”
Transport Canada’s Response R17-02
(signed by the Minister of Transport on November 1, 2017)
Transport Canada (TC) supports this recommendation. The department has requested data on rail surface condition including localized surface collapse, rail end batter and crushed heads from the Canadian National Railway (CN) and from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). Both CN and CP have agreed to provide the information to TC going forward. The information will be used to inform the department’s risk based track inspections on an ongoing basis starting in 2018-19.