On 14 Jun, 13:34, "Paul Scott" wrote:
What might have happened here then - have the BBC described the incident
correctly, or were the brakes applied by the operation of the tripcock?
Surely the Camden town junctions don't allow trains in opposite directions
to meet, thats the whole point of all the branch tunnels...

Yes. But there's nothing to stop a driver getting into a train and
setting off in the wrong direction. There was no SPAD in the
conventional sense.

BRB Class 465.