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Potters Bar rail accidents

1898 disasters in the United Kingdom1899 disasters in the United Kingdom1946 disasters in the United Kingdom1946 in England2002 disasters in the United Kingdom
2002 in EnglandEngvarB from August 2014February 1946 events in the United KingdomHistory of HertfordshireLists of railway accidents and incidents in EnglandMarch 1898 eventsMay 2002 events in the United KingdomPotters BarRail accidents caused by a driver's errorRailway accidents and incidents in HertfordshireRailway accidents in 1898Railway accidents in 1946Railway accidents in 2002Railway accidents involving a signal passed at danger
365530 at Cambridge, 1997
365530 at Cambridge, 1997

There have been four railway accidents at Potters Bar (England). Those in 1898 and 1946 were signals passed at danger. The accident in 2002 led to substantial public debate and a national change in policy relating to maintenance of infrastructure.

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Potters Bar rail accidents
Wyllyots Close, Hertsmere

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Wyllyots Close
EN6 2HN Hertsmere
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365530 at Cambridge, 1997
365530 at Cambridge, 1997
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M16 motorway
M16 motorway

The M16 motorway was the designation planned in the late 1960s and early 1970s for use on Ringway 3, a new motorway planned as part of the London Ringways Plan to run a circular route around London.Construction of the first section of the M16 began in 1973 between South Mimms and Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and opened in September 1975 with the temporary general purpose road designation A1178. During construction of the first section of the motorway, the majority of the Ringways plan was cancelled and, in 1975 the plans for Ringway 3 were modified to combine it with parts of another motorway, Ringway 4, the outermost Ringway.The M16 designation was dropped and the combined motorway was given the designation M25 which had originally been intended for the southern and western part of Ringway 4.The section of Ringway 3 west of South Mimms anti-clockwise around London to Swanley in Kent was cancelled and the section clockwise from Potters Bar to the Dartford Tunnel was constructed between 1979 and 1982. The section of Ringway 3 south of the river between Dartford and Swanley was constructed between 1974 and 1977. The South Mimms junction was originally intended to be the end of a short spur connecting the A1 to the M16. The main alignment of the M16 would have continued south-west of the junction towards Radlett and Bushey. Evidence of this unbuilt alignment remains in the wide gap between the carriageways to the east of the South Mimms junction which would have been the point at which the spur would have separated from the continuing carriageway.