Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article .com,
(TheOneKEA) wrote:

http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Vi...en%20Pk-rm.gif refers.

I appreciate it's redundant, but then it turns out not to be so on
occasion when other equipment fails. Some redundancy makes it easier to
cope with failures.

True, but in theory the simultaneous failure of the signalling in
Victoria South Sidings and the trailing crossover north of the station
should not happen. The fact that it did does not mean that having a
scissors crossover in position would have changed anything.


My surprise is that the facility was removed having been installed. It
would have cost very little just to leave it there.

Not necessarily - if that were the case the scissors crossover west of
Liverpool Street (Central) would not have been simplified either, and
yet it was - and Liverpool Street has the same arrangement as Victoria.