The visitors racked up 122-2 with Matthew
Corner cracking an undefeated half-century and Niall Cutter adding 26.
At present the team has only focused on detecting defects near the surface of the railhead such as gauge
corner cracking, where a shallow crack can block the ultrasound from penetrating down to a deeper crack behind it.
The first discovery of dangerous gauge
corner cracking (GCC) on the East Coast mainline at Aycliffe was a "dress rehearsal" for the fatal smash in October 2000.
It highlighted the problem of gauge
corner cracking (GCC) - a metal fatigue which was known to cause broken rails - and recommended that checking procedures on tracks should be stepped up.
He told the Echo: ``A lot of progress has been made by Railtrack and the train com-panies in pulling performance back from the days of Hatfield and gauge
corner cracking.
Byers said that "gauge
corner cracking" - the cause of the Hatfield derailment - had been identified on rails near Potters Bar last year.
The Virgin intercity lines and Connex South Central, which runs the Rugby to Clapham Junction service, are suffering no delays due to the "gauge
corner cracking" which led to the Hatfield rail crash last October.
That in turn, made the
corner cracking problem worse so we got even more downtime.
The court heard the affected track was suffering from GCC - gauge
corner cracking - where the metal is "literally fatigued and tired out by contact with the rolling stock".
Railtrack refused to confirm or deny the existence of a warning letter but admitted that there had been "major problems" with the track around Potters Bar - referring to the gauge
corner cracking.
``The report was to find out the causes of gauge
corner cracking -- the issue that caused the Hatfield accident.