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Old September 10th 10, 12:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Tube Trains Sent On Collision Course

In article , d ()
wrote:

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:53:12 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 20:05:28
on Thu, 9 Sep 2010,
remarked:

You would have thought the signal allowing trains out of the bay
platform would be interlocked to the points being set correctly for
the route over the crossover, wouldn't you?


Even in the presence of a fault condition (which they've apparently
admitted)?


So much for signals being failsafe. Failsafe unless the failsafe fails.
Which it obviously did.


Exactly. If there was a fault with the points, he should have been on stop
and proceed at least, if allowed to move at all.

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Colin Rosenstiel