I noticed that green park southbound has a standard signal at the end of the
platform. Its obviously not needed by the driver so why is it still there?
Is it just to aid the platform staff?

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Spud

On Monday, 15 May 2017 10:24:48 UTC+1, wrote:
I noticed that green park southbound has a standard signal at the end of the
platform. Its obviously not needed by the driver so why is it still there?
Is it just to aid the platform staff?

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Spud

I think all platforms have retained station starter signals as well as the old style repeaters. I think the starter signals are in case the drivers need to drive the train in degraded mode whereas the repeaters are to aid platform dispatch.

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Paul C
via Google

On Mon, 22 May 2017 04:35:29 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Monday, 15 May 2017 10:24:48 UTC+1, wrote:
I noticed that green park southbound has a standard signal at the end of the
platform. Its obviously not needed by the driver so why is it still there?
Is it just to aid the platform staff?

--
Spud

I think all platforms have retained station starter signals as well as the old
style repeaters. I think the starter signals are in case the drivers need to

Tbh it actually looks like a new LED style light. Curiously the driver started
closing the doors before the signal had actually gone green so I'm presuming
the computer in his cab gets the green light (pun intended) slightly before the
trackside signalling system.

Other ATO lines on the tube have a blue or white light for proceed in ATO
mode but the victoria line seems to have retained plain old red/green. Any
know if there's a particular reason for this?

--
Spud

On Mon, 22 May 2017 13:22:12 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Other ATO lines on the tube have a blue or white light for proceed in ATO
mode but the victoria line seems to have retained plain old red/green. Any
know if there's a particular reason for this?

On other systems I've read about, green means clear to the next colour
light signal whereas white/blue means that you can start under ATP,
either ATO or manual, but the line isn't clear all the way to the
next. Perhaps those signals are 3-aspect? Does anyone have a good
reference for the Victoria signalling?

Richard.

On 31.05.17 20:51, Richard wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2017 13:22:12 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Other ATO lines on the tube have a blue or white light for proceed in ATO
mode but the victoria line seems to have retained plain old red/green. Any
know if there's a particular reason for this?

On other systems I've read about, green means clear to the next colour
light signal whereas white/blue means that you can start under ATP,
either ATO or manual, but the line isn't clear all the way to the
next. Perhaps those signals are 3-aspect? Does anyone have a good
reference for the Victoria signalling?

Richard.


Green - All trains clear

Blue - Trains under code clear

Red - Stop and stay

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 01:15:34 +0100
" wrote:
On 31.05.17 20:51, Richard wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2017 13:22:12 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Other ATO lines on the tube have a blue or white light for proceed in ATO
mode but the victoria line seems to have retained plain old red/green. Any
know if there's a particular reason for this?

On other systems I've read about, green means clear to the next colour
light signal whereas white/blue means that you can start under ATP,
either ATO or manual, but the line isn't clear all the way to the
next. Perhaps those signals are 3-aspect? Does anyone have a good
reference for the Victoria signalling?

Richard.


Green - All trains clear

Blue - Trains under code clear

Red - Stop and stay

All I can say is I've never seen a blue aspect on the victoria line. What
signals remain seem to go straight from red to green in my experience.
However perhaps thats just station starters and the blue signals are in the
tunnels?

--
Spud

[Yes, I know this was long ago.]

In article , d writes
Other ATO lines on the tube have a blue or white light for proceed in ATO
mode but the victoria line seems to have retained plain old red/green. Any
know if there's a particular reason for this?

The original Victoria Line ATO used:
* red: stop
* green: line clear to next signal, can be passed in manual mode
* white: line clear to next block post, can only be passed in auto mode

There were no signals between stations in general (there may be
exceptions), just block posts, which are signals as far as the ATO is
concerned but don't display anything (there is a sign in the tunnel at
the block post). So the white aspect was used to tell the driver that
the ATO knows what it's doing, rather than having the train pass a red
signal and possibly subconsiously conditioning drivers to ignore reds.

I haven't seen the detailed specification for the new ATO signalling,
but I would expect it to operate in much the same way, though block
posts might have been replaced by purely software constructs.

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Clive D.W. Feather

On Thursday, 1 June 2017 09:22:40 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 01:15:34 +0100
" wrote:
On 31.05.17 20:51, Richard wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2017 13:22:12 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Other ATO lines on the tube have a blue or white light for proceed in ATO
mode but the victoria line seems to have retained plain old red/green.. Any
know if there's a particular reason for this?

On other systems I've read about, green means clear to the next colour
light signal whereas white/blue means that you can start under ATP,
either ATO or manual, but the line isn't clear all the way to the
next. Perhaps those signals are 3-aspect? Does anyone have a good
reference for the Victoria signalling?

Richard.


Green - All trains clear

Blue - Trains under code clear

Red - Stop and stay

All I can say is I've never seen a blue aspect on the victoria line. What
signals remain seem to go straight from red to green in my experience.
However perhaps thats just station starters and the blue signals are in the
tunnels?

--
Spud

There are blue and white signals at the end of the platforms, you can probably only see them from the cab. I had a cab ride a couple of weeks back and did notice the odd green signal in between stations as well, but I think they were mainly near reversing points. Trains do move towards block marker boards, which are red and white in colour.

On Friday, 17 November 2017 15:01:21 UTC, upinthesky wrote:
On Thursday, 1 June 2017 09:22:40 UTC+1, wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 01:15:34 +0100
" wrote:
On 31.05.17 20:51, Richard wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2017 13:22:12 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Other ATO lines on the tube have a blue or white light for proceed in ATO
mode but the victoria line seems to have retained plain old red/green. Any
know if there's a particular reason for this?

On other systems I've read about, green means clear to the next colour
light signal whereas white/blue means that you can start under ATP,
either ATO or manual, but the line isn't clear all the way to the
next. Perhaps those signals are 3-aspect? Does anyone have a good
reference for the Victoria signalling?

Richard.


Green - All trains clear

Blue - Trains under code clear

Red - Stop and stay

All I can say is I've never seen a blue aspect on the victoria line. What
signals remain seem to go straight from red to green in my experience.
However perhaps thats just station starters and the blue signals are in the
tunnels?

--
Spud

There are blue and white signals at the end of the platforms, you can probably only see them from the cab. I had a cab ride a couple of weeks back and did notice the odd green signal in between stations as well, but I think they were mainly near reversing points. Trains do move towards block marker boards, which are red and white in colour.

Come to think maybe the red and green are for engineers trains, would doubt they would have the ATO equipment fitted.