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Old September 10th 10, 09:30 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Tube Trains Sent On Collision Course

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.

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