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mahatmakanejeeves

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Tue Oct 17, 2023, 03:22 PM Oct 2023

On this day, October 17, 2000, four died in a rail accident at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

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• 2000 – A fatal rail accident at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, led to the introduction of widespread speed limit reductions throughout the British rail network and eventually caused the collapse of the railway management group Railtrack.
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