Rail company admits failings

NETWORK RAIL has admitted health and safety failings over the 2002 Potters Bar train crash.

The track and station owner told Watford Magistrates’ Court it will plead guilty to proceedings brought by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) over the condition of tracks at the disaster site.

Six passengers and a pedestrian were killed when a West Anglia Great Northern express train travelling from London to King’s Lynn derailed at a faulty set of points in Hertfordshire on May 10, 2002.