In message , at 19:20:10 on Wed, 11
May 2011, Paul Terry remarked:

You must have missed this posting a couple of days ago:

"Basically, the driver deliberately ran the train with a safety
device (the tripcock) cut out without a second person in the
cab. The tripcock is part of the safety system that stops the
train if it goes past a red signal. A driver must ALWAYS have a
second person in the cab if the Tripcock is defective."

Full report (see para 37 onwards):

Nevertheless, the tribunal (and now TfL, by reinstating the employee)
seem to have decided that this was not after all a sackable offence,
especially given the precedent that another driver had done the same
but with a train in public service, and he merely received a warning.

If you have time (I don't) to find that conclusion in the report (rather
than the tribunal criticising the procedures) then it would be worth
posting the paragraph numbers.

But I'm glad we agree that the tripcock was disabled by the driver,
which was the point of my posting. Steve Gardiner was saying this was
impossible.
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Roland Perry