sentences:  He was knighted in the 2012 New Years Honours List for services to engineering and construction as chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority.His knighthood was criticised by the family of a victim of the Grayrigg derailment, as Armitt had been serving as chief executive of Network Rail at the time of the 2007 accident.Network Rail were prosecuted for the incident on the same day that Armitt's knighthood was conferred.