On Jun 15, 12:52 pm, Roland Perry wrote:
1) The drivers switched trains, and unless they both left them in some
nondirectional state with red lights at both ends, the new driver would
have had to reverse the trains "direction" in that respect.

I'd imagine once a cab is locked the train is in a non-directional
state.

2) The driver's end of the platforms have either CCTV monitors or large
mirrors. These are very easy to recognise.

Not on the Northern which has in-cab CCTV monitors, and would
presumably have been working even at the wrong end. And since the
cameras can point either direction, it wouldn't have been obvious the
image was the wrong way round.

We also don't know how much time elapsed between getting out of his
train and getting in the other one. He could conceivably have been
dragged upstairs to talk to the station manager, or been being hassled
by all the passengers on the platform, or many other things that made
him lose his bearings.

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