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Article: Network rail guilty over Hatfield derailment.(World Report)
- Article from:
- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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NETWORK Rail, the owner of Britain's railway infrastructure, has been found guilty of health and safety offences associated with a fatal derailment at Hatfield in which four people died and more than 100 were injured in October 2000. Sentence will be passed this month.
Four Network Rail employees and one from Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance were found not guilty of individual health and safety charges.
Separately, Balfour Beatty, the private firm responsible for track maintenance at Hatfield, had previously admitted breaching safety standards, but was found not guilty of corporate manslaughter.
On October 17 five years ago, a GNER train ...