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Hatfield rail crash
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 exposed the major stewardship shortcomings of the national railway infrastructure company Railtrack and the failings of the regulatory oversight which the company had had in its initial years - principally a failure to ensure that the company had a sound knowledge of the condition of its assets - and ultimately triggered its partial renationalisation.
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