[News] Train travels wrong way down London Tube track

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TomandJerry

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• Jun 23, 2020

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Passengers narrowly avoided a collision when a train travelled the wrong way on a London Underground track.

The Chiltern Railways service stopped a few metres in front of a Tube train at Chalfont and Latimer station in Buckinghamshire.

An image from the scene shows the two just metres apart on the Metropolitan line on Sunday night."

Sacked in the morning....


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AmexRuislip

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• Jun 23, 2020

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Cross Rail

 

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• Jun 23, 2020

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TomandJerry said:

Passengers narrowly avoided a collision when a train travelled the wrong way on a London Underground track.

The Chiltern Railways service stopped a few metres in front of a Tube train at Chalfont and Latimer station in Buckinghamshire.

An image from the scene shows the two just metres apart on the Metropolitan line on Sunday night."

Sacked in the morning....




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Fair play, at least they observed Social distancing!

 

Madafwo

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As a signaller on the railway it is your worst nightmare. It'll be interesting finding out what the hell happened.

 

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AmexRuislip said:

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Cross? They were livid.

 

SeagullinExile

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Madafwo said:

As a signaller on the railway it is your worst nightmare. It'll be interesting finding out what the hell happened.

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Interested to know how that could happen?

Human error likely?

 

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Just impressive they weren't on strike.

 

Norman Potting

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https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2020/06/23-near-collision-at-chalfont-.html

This gives a little more detail - SPAD?

 

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SeagullinExile said:

Interested to know how that could happen?

Human error likely?

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Sack the mayor!

 

Baker lite

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• Jun 23, 2020

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It appears the Chiltern passed a signal at danger on the up line,carried on (sackable offence) split the points and ended on the down line where it socially distanced itself from the Met train... bet the Met drivers clacker valve went..


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Madafwo

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SeagullinExile said:

Interested to know how that could happen?

Human error likely?

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Without knowing any details, pure speculation, I'd say it sounds like human error. Modern signaling systems, and I'm talking anything used in the last 50+ years, works on a system of interlocking, so it shouldn't have been possible for both trains to be signalled into the same section of track at the same time and if anything goes wrong it should fail safe. It's even more worrying if something has gone wrong to allow that to happen.

That's why you get so many delays due to "signalling problems", with 100+ tonne boxes of metal travelling up to 90mph, in the south, normally carrying up to 1000 people at a time, you want to know its safe, so when it goes wrong it's normal for stuff to just stop.