* 2000 – Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.

In July 2002 in the wake of the collapse of Railtrack and the inability of Network Rail to deliver on the 140 mph West Coast Main Line upgrade, both the Virgin CrossCountry and Virgin West Coast franchises were suspended in favour of management contracts.

The Hatfield accident set in motion the series of events that resulted in the ultimate collapse of Railtrack and its replacement with Network Rail, a state-owned, not-for-dividend company.

Although he was not at the Department for Transport at the time of the collapse of Railtrack, Darling vigorously defended what had been done in a speech to the House of Commons on 24 October 2005.

* John Robinson, British businessman and chairman of Railtrack at the time of its collapse

In 1999, the British deputy prime minister John Prescott MP appointed Morton to the chairmanship of the British Railways Board and, once created from February 2001, the Strategic Rail Authority, from which he resigned in October 2001 in the aftermath of the collapse of Railtrack.

In July 2002 in the wake of the collapse of Railtrack and the inability of Network Rail to deliver on the 140 mph West Coast Main Line upgrade, both the Virgin CrossCountry and Virgin West Coast franchises were suspended in favour of management contracts.

In November 2001 funding was announced to build a direct footbridge from the station to the car park, but this was subsequently withdrawn indefinitely in financial cutbacks following the collapse of Railtrack.

Merseytravel rejected criticism of the delays and cost increase, stating that it had been caused by factors beyond its control, such as the collapse of Railtrack, increasing steel costs and poor weather causing flooding at the construction site.

Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.

Immediately following the fatal ceiling collapse, Governor Mitt Romney ordered a stem-to-stern safety audit conducted by the Illinois engineering firm of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. to look for additional areas of risk.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

The city, and the Empire, would ultimately fall to the Ottomans by 1453, but its enduring legacy had provided Europe centuries of resurgence following the collapse of Rome.

A caldera is a cauldron-like volcanic feature usually formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption.

The weakness of Germany's strategic position was exacerbated by the rapid collapse of the other Central Powers in late 1918, following Allied victories on the Macedonian and Italian fronts.

While the Roman Empire and its new Christian religion survived in an increasingly Hellenised form in the Byzantine Empire centered at Constantinople in the East, Western civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in AD 476.

According to Armstrong, the language went from lab product to real applications following the collapse of the next-generation AXE exchange named AXE-N in 1995.

Mussolini was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity to carry out a long war with France or the United Kingdom and waited until France was on the verge of imminent collapse and surrender from German invasion before declaring war on France and the United Kingdom on 10 June 1940, on the assumption that the war would be short-lived following France's collapse.

* Isaac Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica as presented in The Foundation Series is an attempt to compile all human knowledge in order to preserve it following the collapse of the Galactic Empire in the far future.

The collapse of the Russian Empire following the February and October Revolutions of 1917 spurred the collapse of the Grand Duchy of Finland, and the resultant power vacuum led to bitter conflict between the left-leaning labor movement, led by the Social Democrats, and more conservative non-socialists.

Dissent was vigorously suppressed, and many Germans emigrated to America following the collapse of the 1848 uprisings.

They were used extensively following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, when the market for certain types of assets held by hedge funds collapsed, preventing the funds from selling or obtaining a market value for the assets.

In 2011 there was a major political realignment in Ireland, with Fine Gael becoming the largest party, Labour the second, and Fianna Fáil dropping to third following a collapse in support.

He was captured by Pakistani officials in November 2001, as he attempted to flee Afghanistan following the collapse of the Taliban precipitating the 2001 U. S. invasion of Afghanistan.

* 1974 – Konstantinos Karamanlis arrives in Greece following the collapse of the Greek military junta, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.

In 1966 following the collapse of the existing CDU / CSU-FDP coalition Kiesinger was elected to replace Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor, heading a new CDU / CSU-SPD alliance.

Lydia arose as a Neo-Hittite kingdom following the collapse of the Hittite Empire in the 12th century BC.

During the season, the Vikings had many distractions, including trading for Randy Moss and then waiving him only a month later, Brett Favre's NFL investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to Jets ' employee Jenn Sterger while he was with the team in 2008, the Metrodome's collapse and resulting venue changes, and finally head coach Brad Childress ' firing on November 22 following a 31 – 3 loss at the hands of the rival Green Bay Packers.

Calderas are formed by roof collapse following depletion and withdrawal of the subsurface magma chamber after an eruption.

The Attalids, the descendants of Attalus, father of Philetaerus who came to power in 281 BC following the collapse of the Kingdom of Thrace, were among the most loyal supporters of Rome in the Hellenistic world.

Second, densities of elements sufficient for the formation of more complex molecules necessary to life ( such as amino acids ) only occur in molecular dust clouds ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >– 10 < sup > 12 </ sup > particles / m < sup > 3 </ sup >), and ( following their collapse ) in solar systems.

Given the above expression, evidently the result of her ( local ) measurement is that the three-particle state would collapse to one of the following four states ( with equal probability of obtaining each ):

It was the Hatfield crash on 17 October 2000 that proved to be the defining moment in Railtrack's collapse.

The board determined that the probable cause of the accident was that the foam impact caused a breach of a reinforced carbon-carbon panel along the leading edge of Columbia's left wing, allowing hot gases generated during re-entry to enter the wing and cause structural collapse.

There had been many accidents when cast iron beams collapsed suddenly, such as the Dee bridge disaster of May 1847 and later failures such as the Wooton bridge collapse and the Bull bridge accident of 1860.

There they reveal that while Jim was comatose from his accident, an unknown virus spread uncontrollably among the populace, turning most people into rabid, psychotic " infected ," resulting in societal collapse.

Another accident involved only one life, that was William Beck who died in a mine collapse on June 10, 1874.

The accident left a collapse zone wide, long, and deep.

The FAA said the accident happened after the jet attempted to lift off, struck a wingtip on the runway, which caused the gear to collapse and the large jet to burst into flames as it slid down the runway.

Kostin ′ s aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was widely published around the world, showing the extent of the devastation, and triggering fear throughout the world of radioactivity contamination the accident caused, when the Soviet media was working to censor information regarding the accident, releasing limited information regarding the accident on 28 April 1986, until the Soviet Union ′ s collapse in 1991.

Brinkley forecast a 1995 nuclear accident in Norway and a pre-2000 economic collapse in the United States that never happened.

Thereafter further developments were at London Bridge, and following a shunting accident during August 1850 which caused the collapse of a large part of the station roof, the SER closed Bricklayers ' Arms terminus to passenger traffic in 1852 converting it into a goods facility.

The five patients were Ralph Orlando, a construction worker seriously injured in a scaffold collapse, John O ' Connor, a middle aged dispatcher suffering from fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck, Peter Luchesi, a young man who severs his hand in an accident, Sylvia Thompson, an airline passenger who suffers chest pains, and Edith Murphy, a mother of three who is diagnosed with a life threatening disease.

The sudden collapse of part of the Ruapehu crater wall on 24 December 1953 led to New Zealand's worst railway accident, the Tangiwai disaster.

Following the 2005 collapse, violations involving improper cleanup and removal of asbestos found in debris left by the accident resulted in a $ 75, 000 penalty imposed against Testa by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

The collapse of large seracs was responsible for at least 8 of the 11 deaths of the August 2008 K2 climbing accident on the world's second highest mountain, K2.

They are unsuccessful, but with no chance to correct their mistake, Harry takes the advice of The Doctor, whose program had been recovered from the wreckage and re-activated, and instead sends new calculations which collapse the slipstream field before the accident occurred in the primary timeline.

Terror Castle is the former home of movie actor Stephen Terrill, who has died in a possibly suicidal car accident that occurred as his career was on the verge of collapse.

The Nicoll Highway collapse was a construction accident that occurred at approximately 3: 30 p. m. Singapore Time ( UTC + 8: 00 ) on 20 April 2004 in Singapore when a tunnel being constructed for use by MRT trains collapsed.

The accident left a collapse zone 150 m ( 490 ft ) wide, 100 m ( 330 ft ) long, and 30 m ( 100 ft ) deep.

The Nicoll Highway collapse was a construction accident that occurred at approximately 3. 30 pm on 20 April 2004 in Singapore when a tunnel being constructed for use by MRT trains collapsed.

The collapse was described by George Semple as being an unlucky accident when a raft of timber was swiftly carried downstream in a flood where it got lodged across the middle arch.

The accident left a collapse zone 150 m wide, 100 m long, and 30 m deep.

While no one was injured from this collapse, the accident delayed subsequent construction and brought WorkSafe BC inspectors to do an evaluation of safety practices on the construction site.