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Old September 10th 10, 10:42 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Tube Trains Sent On Collision Course

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:38:30 +0100
"Recliner" wrote:
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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, 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.


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.

B2003