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Ian Jelf · March 12th 09, 08:41 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:50:38 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Mar 12, 12:24*am, Uncle Toby wrote:
Which is just my way of saying that the traditional UK meanness to
invest in 'frills' like decent bi-directional signalling is
short-sighted. I suspect that the economic cost of failures does not
enter the heads of the money men who fund our railways, as they
probably have been led, or prefer, *to believe that if things are
maintained 'properly' such things happen so infrequently that they
can be ignored.

I thought that most of the recent major mainline resignalling projects
were bi-di?
This should really be discussed in uk.railway. I think there's a very
cheap-and cheerful limited accomodation for reduced-speed wrong way
moves in modern signalling schemes. The only recent project near me
that I'm aware of is the West Anglia Route Modernisation, which seems
to have some position-light signals for the wrong way but no proper
aspects.

No doubt useful but only in very limited circumstances.

Royston station is fully bidirectional, but only the station. A relic of
the King's Cross suburban electrification when the service forward to
Cambridge became a diesel shuttle.

Isn't that true of Worcester Foregate Street as well?
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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