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Old June 18th 07, 10:19 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default Northern line near collision

On 17 Jun, 16:24, wrote:
On 17 Jun, 15:36, Boltar wrote:

On 17 Jun, 09:15, Chris Tolley wrote:
If he'd been going a bit faster and had a collision and killed
himself, the other driver and possibly some passengers too, would you
still just consider it a "blemish"? And don't say "well he didn't".
That was down to pure luck the other train had stopped, not any action
on his part.


I'd hardly call the fact that a train was standing at a signal showing
a red aspect due to the section ahead being occupied "pure luck".


If that stopped train had been running a bit late the train from
camden could have reached that signal before the other driver who
would not have been stopped at the signal before because at that time
the section in front *wasn't* occupied. I'll let you work out the
rest.

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