On 15 Jun, 16:19, Tom Anderson wrote:


But if the driver thought he was turning that train and taking it south
again, he might have been heading for the crossover. That isn't what he
was told to do, but there could have been a communications breakdown.

Like most incidents, this was a combination of errors - Driver given
wrong route; Driver accepted wrong route; Driver set off in wrong
direction.

It's also worth remembering that two drivers were at fault (assuming
that the driver given the wrong rout wasn't told to take it) - the
driver who set off in the wrong direction was the driver who had
swapped to the wrongly routed train.