The Ladbroke Grove rail disaster: lessons to be learned 20 years on
Rail safety concerns are mounting again as the UK industry faces another overhaul
October 2011
The Northerner
Grayrigg 'hero' driver tells of making mobile calls with broken neck
The rail crash inquest hears how an 'easy-peasy' journey turned into horror - but Ian Black put safety first as he drifted in and out of consciousness
March 2011
Network Rail facing huge fine over Potters Bar crash
The track operator is braced for a multimillion-pound penalty as it prepares to enter a guilty plea in criminal case
February 2011
Law: the expert view
Will the new Corporate Homicide Act save lives?
Neil Rose
Neil Rose: Solicitors believe it will take a high-profile fatal accident to test the ability of prosecutors to hold big companies to account
March 2010
Network Rail offers cash to workers to avert strike
Owner of UK rail system prepared to pay lump sums in attempt to prevent first national stoppage in 16 years
July 2006
Hatfield crash report criticises safety failures
Engineering company Balfour Beatty failed to effectively manage inspection and maintenance of track at the site of the Hatfield rail crash, a final report into the October 2000 accident said yesterday.
Court cuts record Hatfield rail crash fine by £2.5m
The record £10m fine imposed on the engineering giant Balfour Beatty for negligence over a faulty track which caused the Hatfield rail disaster was cut to £7.5m by the appeal court yesterday, to the dismay of crash victims and relatives.
£2.5m cut from Hatfield crash fine
Court of Appeal rules that £10m fine for engineering firm Balfour Beatty should be reduced because it is so much more than the £3.5m fine given to the infrastructure company Network Rail over its predecessor's performance in the disaster.
May 2006
Judgment reserved in Hatfield rail crash appeal
The appeal court reserved judgment yesterday on an appeal by the engineering company Balfour Beatty against the record £10m fine imposed on it after the Hatfield rail crash, in which four people died.
October 2005
Hatfield victims and unions call for new corporate killing law
Companies fined over Hatfield crash
Safety charges dropped against Hatfield four
Lawyers drop final Hatfield cases
September 2005
'If only...' isn't good enough
Ian Jack: To find the real guilty men of the Hatfield train crash, look to those who privatised the railways.
Executives cleared of train crash blame
Old Bailey jury finds Network Rail guilty of safety breaches in Hatfield tragedy five years ago.
Network Rail convicted over Hatfield safety breach
Hatfield and corporate manslaughter
How Hatfield changed the rail industry
July 2005
Balfour Beatty faces fine over Hatfield
Maintenance firm pleads guilty to Hatfield safety breaches
