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	Potters Bar rail crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Potters Bar rail crash occurred on May 10, 2002 at Potters Bar, in Hertfordshire just north of Greater London, when a northbound train derailed at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven.
		In 2003 Network Rail announced it was taking all track maintenance in-house, ending the use of private contractors except for large-scale renewal or development projects.
		The writer Nina Bawden was badly injured in the crash, and her husband was killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potters_Bar_rail_crash (517 words)

	Railroad switch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fatal train accident at Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, UK occurred in May 2002, when a switch sprang to a different position as a coach crossed it.
		Instead the rails at the facing-point end are bent by the switch mechanism to align with the rails of one of the diverging routes, which are cut off square near where the movable points would otherwise begin.
		Because the rails leading up to the facing-point end are not secured to the sleepers for several feet leading to the switch, and rail alignment across the gap is not positively enforced, these switches cannot be traversed at high speed and are thus not suitable for main line use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Railroad_switch (1723 words)

	The Potters Bar Train Crash
		Whether the rails were buckled before, during or after the crash remains to be seen, but an area at those points was soon covered with tarpaulin, and later completely enclosed by an incident tent.
		Their revelations that the track at the crash scene, and elsewhere, had been known to be defective sent shudders through the travelling public, and a massive exercise was undertaken to bring the whole line, and the rest of the country, up to expected standards.
		Potential passengers have had their confidence shaken in the wake of the Potters Bar incident, and are wondering whether the promised improvements and retrospective repair work has been implemented as well as it could have been, or whether the infrastructure has once again been allowed to fall into a state of dangerous disrepair.
	www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk /pottersb.htm (3575 words)

	CNN.com - 'Faulty points' caused UK rail crash - May 13, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Byers made his statement hours after it was revealed that a rail worker alerted management to problems at the points at Potters Bar three weeks before the disaster.
		The Potters Bar crash is the latest blow to an industry which has lurched from crisis to crisis over recent years.
		Potters Bar resident Agnes Quinlivan, 80, was killed by falling debris as she walked under the station bridge.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/13/uk.train (957 words)

	Potters Bar rail crash -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Initially after the accident, Jarvis claimed that the points' poor condition was due to (A deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged) sabotage of some sort, and that its maintenance was not to blame.
		In 2003 (Click link for more info and facts about Network Rail) Network Rail announced it was taking all track maintenance in-house, ending the use of private contractors except for large-scale renewal or development projects.
		The writer (Click link for more info and facts about Nina Bawden) Nina Bawden was badly injured in the crash, and her husband was killed.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Po/Potters_Bar_rail_crash.htm (519 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Rail firm admits faulty work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nina Bawden, a survivor of the Potters Bar rail crash last year and who lost her husband, Austen Kark, in the disaster, called for an inquiry into Jarvis.
		Rail unions reacted with anger in June when Jarvis was named as the preferred bidder to replace track in the London north-east region, which covers both Potters Bar and Kingâs Cross.
		THE woman whose face came to symbolise the suffering of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash survivors broke down in tears yesterday as she described her "despair" over delays in paying her full claim for damages.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1029442003 (980 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Accidents on Britain's railways - Rail crash charges 'much less likely' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		SERIOUS criminal charges over the Potters Bar rail crash are much less likely now police have stepped back from the investigation, a lawyer for the bereaved families has said.
		Louise Christian, who represents families of five of the seven people killed at Potters Bar, was speaking after the British Transport Police said it would no longer be leading the investigation into the crash.
		The engineering firm Jarvis has been at the centre of the probe into Potters Bar as it was responsible for track maintenance at the scene of the crash in Hertfordshire.
	business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=335&id=318202004 (424 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| 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.
		With three days until the election, members of the Potters Bar Claimants Group have hit out at the Tory candidate because of his continued chairmanship of the engineering group Jarvis, whose maintenance work was criticised after the crash two years ago, which claimed seven lives.
		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.
	www.guardian.co.uk /pottersbar/story/0,11994,1233855,00.html (431 words)

	Hendon Times: Features: Potters Bar Rail Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Serious criminal charges over the Potters Bar rail crash are less likely now that police have stepped back from the investigation, a lawyer for the bereaved families has said.
		The company in charge of maintaining the faulty points that caused the Potters Bar rail crash is on the verge of being awarded a lucrative contract to renew the stretch of track where the accident happened.
		Senior executives at rail maintenance company Jarvis said the company had been used as a scapegoat by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) in its investigation over their role in the Potters Bar rail crash.
	www.times-series.co.uk /features/railcrash (335 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Accidents on Britain's railways - Rail firms admit liability for Potters Bar crash
		FAMILIES of the Potters Bar rail crash victims last night welcomed the announcement that two companies had accepted liability for claims brought over the accident in May 2002 which claimed seven lives.
		Both the rail infrastructure company Network Rail (NR) and Jarvis, the rail maintenance company, said they had "formally accepted liability on behalf of the rail industry for all legally justified claims brought by the bereaved and injured".
		In March 2004, it was announced that British Transport Police was handing over the lead in the investigation into the crash to the HSE, which said last night that the liability announcement would not effect its on-going inquiry "into the root cause of the crash".
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=335&id=477612004 (546 words)

	Cause of Potters Bar rail crash still unclear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Police investigating the Potters Bar rail disaster yesterday admitted they were still unable to identify the cause of the crash and needed rail workers to come forward.
		Seven people died when a West Anglia Great Northern train derailed as a set of points fell apart outside Potters Bar station, in Hertfordshire, on 10 May. Detectives said hundreds of interviews had been conducted and thousands of documents studied, but they were still not convinced they had the full picture.
		Jarvis, the maintenance company responsible for the section of track at Potters Bar, has said that sabotage cannot be discounted.
	www.millennium-debate.org /ind29aug024.htm (221 words)

	Rail firms take blame for Potters Bar crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Network Rail, the railway infrastructure company, and Jarvis, the rail maintenance company, have accepted liability for the Potters Bar rail crash.
		John Armitt, the chief executive of Network Rail said: "Immediately following the Potters Bar crash, I publicly apologised on behalf of the industry to the bereaved and injured for the tragedy.
		Kevin Hyde, chief executive of Jarvis plc, said: "Everyone at Jarvis was deeply saddened by the tragic event at Potters Bar and its terrible impact on the lives of the victims, their families and friends.
	www.millennium-debate.org /tel27ap04.htm (336 words)

	Encyclopedia: Potters Bar rail crash
		Double switch aka scissors crossovers A railroad switch (known in British and Australian English as (a set of) points or, in technical usage, a turnout) is a mechanical installation provided at a point where rail track A divides into two tracks B and C. It can be set in either...
		A parapet (from the Italian parapetto and/or the French parapet, from Italian para, imperative of Italian parare (to cover, defend) and petto (breast), ultimately from the Latin pectus (breast); the Germans use the term Brustwehr (breast-defence)) consists of a dwarf wall along the edge of a roof, or...
		Network Rails logo Network Rail is a British not for dividend Company Limited by Guarantee that owns the fixed assets of that part of the British railway system that formerly belonged to British Rail, the now defunct UK state-owned rail operator.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Potters-Bar-rail-crash (1063 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Accidents on Britain's railways
		MANSLAUGHTER charges against five rail executives accused of killing the four people who died in the Hatfield train disaster were thrown out by a judge yesterday.
		MANSLAUGHTER charges against five rail bosses accused of killing four people who died in the Hatfield train disaster were thrown out by a judge today.
		A RAIL worker died yesterday after he was struck by a passenger train at a junction.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=335&id=477612004 (360 words)

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		On behalf of the company and my colleagues, I would like to apologise for the hurt and anger our actions in responding caused." The writer Nina Bawden was badly injured in the crash, and her husband was killed.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Potters Bar rail crash.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Potters_Bar_rail_crash.html (617 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Special report: Potters Bar train crash
		March 26, letter: Andrew Lezala, the chief executive of Jarvis Rail (Letters March 24), is puzzled by Roy Hattersley's claim that there is "increasing agreement that the Potters Bar crash was the result of faulty maintenance".
		December 27: Novelist Nina Bawden, whose husband was killed in the Potters Bar train crash, yesterday accused the government of not making the railways a priority and called for corporate manslaughter charges to be brought against those responsible for the accident.
		June 28: Police investigating the Potters Bar rail crash are focusing on claims that five maintenance men spotted on the line were employees of a Manchester based staffing agency, Vital Resources.
	www.guardian.co.uk /pottersbar/0,11994,713526,00.html (756 words)

	Firms accept liability for Potters Bar rail crash
		However, the investigation into the rail crash in which seven people were killed will continue.
		Railtrack, now known as Network Rail, had previously declared it would take the lead in settling claims and that all legally justified claims would be handled as if liability had been accepted.
		Network Rail and Jarvis have now agreed that they should formally accept liability on behalf of the industry for claims brought by the bereaved and injured despite the continuing investigations into the root cause of the accident.
	www.4ni.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?id=28473 (327 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Accidents on Britain's railways - Tears and anger mark Potters Bar anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Members of the Ogunwasi family show their grief at a service commemorating the anniversary of the Potters Bar train crash that killed their father and husband.
		SURVIVORS and bereaved families tearfully commemorated yesterday the first anniversary of the Potters Bar rail crash which left seven people dead.
		Among the bereaved at the service were members of the Ogunwasi family, who lost their father and husband in the crash.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?id=538572003&tid=335 (483 words)

	Airdisaster.Com Forums - Potters Bar Train Crash
		Quite rightly, no-one is suggesting that US rail travel is inherently dangerous.[/B] Yeah, and I vaguely recall a monster rail crash in Germany 2 or 3 years ago, 100 dead, worse than anything in Britain for 50 years, so.....
		The reports states that several sets of points (switches) around the crash site were substandard; a fifth of the nuts holding points together in the area were not fully tightened; the contractor, Jarvis plc, failed to provide the right type of tools for proper maintenance in some cases.
		No major crash occurred on the GWR in the twentieth century until 1940 and then it was due largely to the wartime conditions.
	www.airdisaster.com /forums/printthread.php?t=49678 (3240 words)

	C4 News - UK - Potters Bar - Taking the blame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rail infrastructure company Network Rail and rail maintenance company Jarvis has announced they had accepted liability on behalf of the rail industry for claims brought over the Potters Bar crash.
		Railtrack (now Network Rail) would take the lead in settling claims and that all legally justified claims would be handled as if liability had been accepted.
		NR chief executive John Armitt said: "Immediately following the Potters Bar crash, I publicly apologised on behalf of the industry to the bereaved and injured for the tragedy.
	www.channel4.com /news/2004/04/week_4/27_potters.html (384 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Poor maintenance blamed for Potters Bar rail crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The HSE found that even five months after the crash “good engineering practice” was not being applied to points maintenance in some areas of the national network.
		Loose nuts on the points at Potters Bar led to the failure which resulted in the derailment of a West Anglia Great Northern London to Kings Lynn train at lunchtime on May 10 last year.
		The section of track was the responsibility of rail maintenance company Jarvis, which said on May 20 last year that sabotage could not be ruled out.
	breaking.tcm.ie /2003/05/29/story100770.html (397 words)

	The Socialist Issue 262
		Potters Bar inquiry: RAIL WORKERS and passengers will be horrified by the findings of the inquiry into the Potters Bar rail crash, which killed seven people in May.
		RAIL WORKERS and passengers will be horrified by the findings of the inquiry into the Potters Bar rail crash, which killed seven people in May.
		At the same time, rank and file workers for the company were barred from cashing in the share options they were given as part of their pay package.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /TheSocialistIssue262.htm (5894 words)

	icScotland - Jarvis wins Potters Bar contract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The rail maintenance company at the centre of the ongoing investigation into the Potters Bar rail crash has been selected to carry on its stewardship of the same section of track.
		Jarvis was named by Railtrack's successor company, Network Rail, as the preferred bidder for the London North Eastern track region.
		Seven people died in the crash in Hertfordshire in May 2002 when a West Anglia Great Northern train derailed at a set of points south of Potters Bar station.
	icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk /news/newscentre/content_objectid=13092161_method=full_siteid=50141_headline=-Jarvis-wins-Potters-Bar-contract-name_page.html (311 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Charles visits rail crash survivors
		The Prince said the crash was a "terrible thing" and he extended his sympathies to the relatives of those who died in the tragedy.
		Following Friday's rail crash, about 30 people received hospital treatment and 76 "walking wounded" received care at a makeshift field hospital in a Sainsbury's supermarket car park near to the crash site.
		Ten other casualties with abdominal and head injuries were taken to Chase Farm, which is 5 miles from Potters Bar and part of the same trust as Barnet General.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1980127.stm (608 words)

	Gardener creates rail crash memorial
		A YORK landscape gardener has constructed a memorial garden for relatives who lost loved ones in the Potters Bar rail crash.
		Rail investigators are still examining the cause of the crash, with inquiries focusing on the faulty points.
		York company Jarvis Rail, which was responsible for maintenance of the line, had claimed that sabotage was the reason for the disaster.
	www.thisisyork.co.uk /york/archive/2003/05/09/york_news_local9ZM.html (357 words)

	Britain: Potters Bar derailment highlights deterioration in rail safety
		The May 10 train derailment at Potters Bar has entered the roll call of towns and suburbs whose names have become synonymous with the disasters that have befallen the rail network since privatisation in 1994.
		Even if the exact problem at Potters Bar was not replicated anywhere else on the network, this would hardly be sufficient to give the railways a clean bill of health.
		The most likely cause of the Potters Bar derailment was indeed sabotage—not by some disgruntled former employee, but the reckless policy of privatisation introduced by the previous Tory administration and continued by Labour.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/may2002/pott-m24_prn.shtml (2490 words)

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