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Old September 10th 10, 12:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Tube Trains Sent On Collision Course

On Sep 10, 11:59*am, "Recliner" wrote:
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:38:30 +0100
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:53:12 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
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20:05:28 on Thu, 9 Sep 2010,
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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.


Surely it was still failsafe? *No trains were signalled to collide
with each other.


Only because the oncoming train was still had 1km and some signals
between it and the station. If it had been 100 metres away we could
be looking at a very different situation.


Not as I understand it. After all, Tube trains routinely follow each
other all the time, just a few hundred meters apart. They are signalled
along the same route, but the signals also stop them occupying the same
sections. So in this case, even if the trains were on a collision
course, surely the signals (and train stops) would actually have stopped
them approaching each other too closely?


That is working in the same direction. At junctions where trains are
"head on", the signalling would act to stop a train clear of any
conflicting move if, for example a SPAD occured. A train on the wrong
line doesn't have this benefit. Boltar seems to know what he's talking
about.
 
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