How the rail shattered at Hatfield

By Railway Gazette International2001-03-01T11:00:00

The second interim report into the Hatfield derailment on October 17 2000, issued by Britain’s Health & Safety Executive on January 23, includes an astonishing reconstruction of the first 35m of the high rail curving north at 1462m radius from the initial transverse fracture. As the 6m section reproduced below ...

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