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	BBC News \| UK \| Hatfield Train Crash
		On Tuesday 17 October 2000 the 1210 GNER Intercity 225 train from London to Leeds was derailed outside the Hertfordshire town of Hatfield, killing four people.
		It is the third serious rail disaster in three years after the Southall and Paddington crashes.
		The train, which was carrying about 200 passengers, came to a catastrophic halt at 12.25pm.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2000/hatfield_crash/default.stm (109 words)

	Hatfield, Hertfordshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hatfield, originally Bishop's Hatfield, is a town in the Welwyn Hatfield district of Hertfordshire, in the south of England.
		Hatfield is most famous for being the location of Hatfield House.
		Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa - an affluent suburb on the east side of the city, containing a number of consulates, embassies and the University of Pretoria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hatfield,_Hertfordshire (723 words)

	Hatfield rail crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hatfield rail crash was a railway accident that occurred on 17 October 2000, at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK.
		Although the accident had a low death toll in comparison to other railway incidents in British history, Hatfield's historical significance has become much greater, since it demonstrated many of the flaws present in the mid 1990s privatisation of the British railway system and ultimately triggered its partial renationalisation.
		A preliminary investigation found that a rail had fragmented while the train had passed over it, and that the likely cause was "gauge corner cracking" (microscopic cracks in the rails).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hatfield_rail_crash (597 words)

	MICHAEL PEAD :: Photos of Hatfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hatfield House was used as a military hospital during the Second World War.
		Hatfield was once renowned for its aircraft manufacturing industry and was the birthplace of legendary planes such as the Mosquito, Comet and Trident.
		Hatfield hit the headlines on October 17 2000 after a GNER train derailed on the East Coast Main Line at 12.24 after a piece of rail fragmented.
	www.michaelpead.co.uk /photography/london/hatfield.shtml (619 words)

	Money \| Companies fined over Hatfield crash
		"Hatfield was a tragedy, and our thoughts remain with the bereaved families and with those injured and otherwise affected by it," the company said in a statement.
		The heaviest penalty to be imposed in the English courts until today was the £2m fine imposed on Thames Trains as a result of the 1999 Paddington rail crash.
		However, Ms Bell - who was injured in the 1997 Southall train crash, which claimed seven lives - said she was disappointed that prosecutions for manslaughter and corporate manslaughter had failed in this case and in other previous cases.
	money.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5304103-108915,00.html (580 words)

	£2.5m cut from Hatfield crash fine \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		The breakage caused the train to derail at 117mph, knocking a carriage on its side and tearing a hole in the roof of the buffet car.
		A faulty rail at the site had been identified 21 months before the crash but had never been repaired, despite the fact that a replacement rail had been delivered to the site six months before the disaster.
		It was revealed earlier this year that the government spent £21m helping Balfour Beatty and Network Rail with their legal costs in cases relating to the Hatfield crash.
	www.guardian.co.uk /hatfieldtraincrash/story/0,,1813247,00.html?gusrc=rss (518 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		Hatfield House - another great castle, or really a stately house - just about a 30 minute train hop from London to Hatfield - the castle is a few steps from the station.
		Hatfield is a monument to politically-motivated over-reaction - fuelled, esssentially, by Tony B. Liar's determination to badmouth the previous government.
		We dutifully got off and asked the agent which train to get for Hever, and he pointed to the one we had just got off of and was then moving on, saying we should change at Oxted for Hever which was what the man at the departure point at Victoria had said.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34629299&numresponses=12&start=0 (2072 words)

	Safety - Off the Tracks
		As the third crash in as many years, Hatfield looked like it was to become yet another statistic, a monument to the lack of funding and consequential decline in rail safety over recent years.
		These forthright admissions may have been because there were no other trains involved in the incident, so it couldn't be immediately put down to 'driver error', but there was plenty of opportunity to allege that the driver was not paying attention, was drunk, was driving too fast or the train itself was defective.
		Unlike previous crashes, which have done little to change anything, Hatfield looks like it will be remembered not just as the disaster it was, but as the event which brought railways back under public control.
	www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk /railtrak.htm (1710 words)

	CNN.com - Thirteen dead in UK rail crash - February 28, 2001
		The train then derailed, hitting a freighter travelling on parallel track in the opposite direction, hurling coaches into nearby fields where they landed on their sides, trapping some passengers amid the mangled metal.
		The jeep was dragged by the passenger train for 250 metres (750 ft).
		It was not clear whether the train was travelling at top speed, about 125 m.p.h., as speed restrictions are still in place in parts after being imposed following the Hatfield train crash in which four people died last October.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/UK/02/28/rail.crash.05?PHPSESSID=88c695eb41bba1d11822a115e6a786b7 (975 words)

	CNN.com - UK fatal rail crash inquiry begins - May 13, 2002
		It is known a set of wheels came off the final carriage, and soon after arriving at the crash site investigators covered a set of points immediately behind the accident scene with a blue tarpaulin, possibly suggesting a fault on either train or track.
		That crash was caused by a piece of broken wheel striking a set of points as the high-speed train was moved from one track to another.
		This crash was caused by a driver going through a red light and it was the same problem that led to the 31-death Paddington disaster in October 1999.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/10/uk.train.inquiry/index.html (798 words)

	Life and Health \| Motoring \| 'You can't bring that on here!'
		It ought to be a match made in heaven: bicycles and trains, arguably the two most sustainable forms of transport.
		All you need to do is ride to the station, buy a ticket, put your bike on the train, relax with a cup of coffee, and then ride off to your destination when you reach the terminus.
		Trains and bikes: a perfect synergy for clean, green travel.
	lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk /motoring/story/0,,1688757,00.html (639 words)

	RailNews: Railway information from around the world
		A CSX spokeswoman said train traffic was halted in the Baltimore, Washington and Pittsburgh areas, and parts of North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio and Virginia.
		The plan hinges on building a new train tunnel under the river that would be fed by a network of new rail lines in Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex counties.
		The BBC's David Willey in Rome said the cause of the crash was not clear, although it occurred on a section of the track which is limited to single line traffic.
	www.railpersonnel.com /railnews/railnews130105txt.htm (1836 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		The inter-city train was travelling from King's Cross to Leeds at close to its maximum speed when it was derailed south of Hatfield, Herts, at 12.24pm.
		The impact split the nine-carriage train in two, tearing the roof off the buffet car, which was one of three carriages to end up on their sides.
		The crash occurred in a secluded area close to the A1001 Great North Road, which was closed off.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/10/18/ncras18.xml (1242 words)

	The Observer \| UK News \| Checks on Tube crash line 'were cut'
		Inspections of the track on which a London Underground train derailed because of a broken rail had been reduced from daily to every three days, it was revealed last night.
		None of the 76 passengers were reported hurt in the incident when the last carriage of a Piccadilly line train came off the rails between Hammersmith and Barons Court stations late on Friday night.
		However the RMT union said one reason for the crash could be a reduction, in the run-up to privatisation, in visual inspections from every night to every three days.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1066357,00.html (319 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Special report: Selby train crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		March 1: A passenger express and a freight train slowed to a crawl just before dawn yesterday and sounded their horns in a tribute to the victims of the Selby rail tragedy exactly a year earlier.
		January 11: The judge in the Selby train crash trial stressed that Gary Hart's failure to sleep prior to his journey was the moral equivalent of drink driving.
		February 28: Survivors and relatives of the Selby train crash victims have gathered today for a series of memorials to the 10 men killed in the disaster and the bravery of those injured.
	www.politics.guardian.co.uk /selby/0,7368,444223,00.html (694 words)

	NDT jobs and NDT news from NDT Cabin
		Train maker Bombardier is cutting its workforce by 2,200 worldwide, with the sharpest edge of the jobs axe falling on the UK, Germany and Canada.
		A US safety board investigation has found that a chemical train derailment in which one man died and 300 were injured was probably caused by an ineffective inspection and maintenance programme.
		Virgin Trains is carrying out urgent safety checks on its entire fleet of CrossCountry trains after faults were spotted on two of them.
	www.ndtcabin.com /?period=rail_current (496 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Travel \| News \| Small-scale train operator given green signal on east coast
		A new train operator, Grand Central Railway, has overcome opposition from the government and won its six-year battle to run a high-speed service between London and the north-east on the inter-city network.
		Its approval by the independent regulator was greeted with dismay by the Department for Transport, which says the operation will cost the taxpayer £114m over the next decade by sucking passengers away from GNER and other established train firms which pay a portion of their profits to the Treasury.
		A source close to the transport secretary, Alistair Darling, said ministers were "surprised and disappointed" by the rail regulator's decision and were likely to take a fresh look at the access requirements for future operators.
	travel.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,,1738750,00.html (444 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Regeneration \| China's 270mph flying train could run on London to Glasgow route if plan takes ...
		Within seconds of departure, we were floating on a 1cm cushion of air at 100kmh and the carriages began to lean from side to side.
		The "tilt" on Maglev trains is unnerving - they lean to an angle of 12 degrees, a third more than one of Virgin Trains' new Pendolinos.
		The train's German designers said she was there on the insistence of the Chinese authorities; the technology drives itself, guided by electrically controlled magnetic fields.
	society.guardian.co.uk /regeneration/story/0,7940,1500285,00.html (1037 words)

	CNN.com - UK rail operator reports £534 million losses - May 24, 2001
		The company's results for the year ending March 31 show the aftermath of the fatal Hatfield train crash near London -- when cracked rails were discovered -- cost it £1.23 billion ($1.7 billion).
		It said an extensive examination after the Hatfield disaster had revealed it was in a poorer condition than previously thought.
		Railtrack also admitted that underlying train performance had deteriorated throughout the year, with the number of delay minutes attributed to Railtrack rising by 125 percent, compared to an industry rise of 69 percent.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/05/24/railtrack/index.html (358 words)

	Supply Management.com - for purchasing and supply management professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Railtrack admitted last week that the accident - involving the derailment of a GNER London King's Cross-to-Leeds express train and thought to be caused by a broken rail - raised questions about the effectiveness of arrangements governing third parties responsible for £663 million-worth of maintenance.
		It is believed that the rail on the stretch of line where the accident occurred must have shown evidence of gauge corner cracking prior to the crash.
		In the days following the crash it emerged that Railtrack had warned Balfour Beatty six months ago that there was a major risk of a derailment in the Hatfield area if urgent improvements were not carried out.
	www.supplymanagement.co.uk /archiveitem.asp?id=3408 (336 words)

	Hatfield disaster \| The Socialist 21 - 27 July 2005
		A JUDGE has thrown out manslaughter charges against five rail executives from Railtrack and Balfour Beatty, accused of killing the four people who died in the October 2000 Hatfield train crash.
		The prosecution claimed that faulty rails identified 21 months before the crash were left unrepaired, that more than 200 defects had been found on the 43 miles of line from Kings Cross, and that many other dangerous decisions had been made, mainly to cut costs and boost profits.
		After the Hatfield crash, 76% of people said they agreed with renationalising the rail system.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2005/402/np9a.htm (304 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Rail crash families denounce Norris
		Relatives of the dead and injured from the Potters Bar rail crash have made a late attempt to wreck Steve Norris's mayoral campaign, denouncing him as "unfit" to hold office.
		Jarvis and Network Rail have accepted liability for the crash to facilitate payments to relatives of the victims but insist that the cause of the accident is still unknown.
		Nina Bawden, whose husband Austen Kark died in the crash, said: "Steve Norris is not a fit candidate to be London mayor as head of Jarvis.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /gla/story/0,9061,1233857,00.html (432 words)

	ERA Online \| Swindler Transit News
		The train was on its way from Rancho Cordova to Sacramento when a man jumped from behind a signal box and into the path of the train, officials said.
		The new trains are replacing the old slam-door trains on SWT, which runs services from London's Waterloo station to the south coast and to the west of England.
		Trains in the Northeast corridor use similar technology but the equipment is expensive and not all rail companies find the cost equal to the benefits, Blakey said.
	erausa.org /swindler/2002_0420-0426.php (20714 words)

	Train Traveling News Reports and Feature Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A fifth of trains were still running late 18 months after the Hatfield train crash...
		Within days of the October 1999 Paddington train crash the victims began to be questioned on the running of the rail network.
		Train services are still not as reliable as they were before the Hatfield rail crash, latest figures show.
	www.traintraveling.com /newslinks/main_archive_22_02.html (2177 words)

	Britain: After the Hatfield rail crash--are accidents good for business?
		In the aftermath of the Hatfield rail tragedy—in which four people were killed and dozens more were injured as an unrepaired broken track derailed a high-speed train—many expected that the company responsible for track maintenance would face a tough time.
		On Wednesday morning, Virgin trains between Milton Keynes and Rugby were re-routed via Northampton because so many speed restrictions had been imposed on that stretch of track.
		The fact that even now, in the wake of the Hatfield tragedy, the government regulator is only talking about restoring the track to its state at the time of privatisation speaks volumes about the real relationship between private profit and rail safety.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/oct2000/rail-o26.shtml (1037 words)

	C4 News - Home - Rail safety - Hatfield: charges brought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is seen as a final attempt by the CPS to use existing laws to prosecute individuals for corporate misdeeds - the government has promised a new law of corporate manslaughter but has yet to deliver.
		Attempts to prosecute P&O European Ferries following the Zeebrugge disaster in 1987, and Great West Trains following the Southall crash six years ago, both failed because they couldn't show that a senior individual within the companies was responsible for the deaths, in the jargon a "controlling mind".
		All those named in the Hatfield case have been bailed to appear at St Albans magistrates' court next week, but the trial is likely to be many months away.
	www.channel4.com /news/2003/07/week_2/09_hatfield.html (573 words)

	Rail Safety and Standards Board
		The inquiry, which is being held on behalf of the rail industry, is being organised and co-ordinated by Railtrack's Safety and Standards Directorate.
		It will centre on the interaction between train and track, and the design, maintenance and condition of the track, infrastructure and rolling stock involved in the accident in which four people died and many more were injured.
		It will also focus on on-train recording equipment, types of vehicle and frequency on the route, staff competency and any other factors that may have contributed to the accident.
	www.rssb.co.uk /getArticle.asp?DocRef=357 (208 words)

	Firms fined over Hatfield crash
		Two firms have been fined a total of £13.5m for breaching health and safety regulations over the 2000 Hatfield train crash, in which four people died.
		The crash, involving the London to Leeds express train, also left 102 injured.
		Balfour Beatty apologised for its role in the crash.
	www.icego.org /details/firms_fined_over_hatfield_crash.html (261 words)

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