GC incident at Peterborough (04/05)

[Purple Train]

Anything where route knowledge alone is the difference between life and death, is clearly unsafe. It seems nobody picked up on the urgency of the pertinent issue from the Luno incident - new trains accelerate quickly, changing the risks of certain routes and signalling arrangements.

Indeed. If safety relied on route knowledge alone, there wouldn't be Morpeth boards. If safety relied on keeping an appropriate look-out for signal aspects and displays alone, there wouldn't be AWS or TPWS. No amount of training can make any driver perfectly infallible.

 

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The difference there is the drivers go round these every trip,

Unless they are a ROG, RHTT, tamper, engineering train etc. The assumption of who is driving the train doesn't factor into the design of signalling thankfully.

Going down road, there is an AWS magnet and board approaching East Ham where the speed drops from 60 to 40.