£4m Grayrigg crash fine
Network Rail was has been fined £4 million for health and safety breaches which caused the fatal Grayrigg train derailment in February 2007.
Judge: Fine cannot account for life lost
The Judge in the Grayrigg case said that "both individual and systemic" failures led to the derailment, and emphasised that Network Rail should have learned lessons from an earlier derailment at Potters' Bar in 2002. Mrs Justice Swift DBE said:
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