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« Reply #1005 on: November 03, 2015, 06:54:39 »

.....another day.....


Alterations to services between Slough and Reading 

Due to a problem currently under investigation between Slough and Reading the Reading bound slow line is blocked.

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Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 20 mins or revised. Disruption is expected until 09:00 03/11.

Freight train SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) in the Maidenhead area.
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« Reply #1006 on: November 03, 2015, 07:10:38 »

.....another day.....


Alterations to services between Slough and Reading 

Due to a problem currently under investigation between Slough and Reading the Reading bound slow line is blocked.

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Train services running to and from these stations may be delayed by up to 20 mins or revised. Disruption is expected until 09:00 03/11.

Freight train SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) in the Maidenhead area.
  GWR (Great Western Railway) twitter saying "broken down freight train", NR» (Network Rail - home page) saying "problem under investigation"..........my money's on BNM's theory!
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« Reply #1007 on: November 03, 2015, 10:01:16 »

Yes, BMN is right.  Although it was at Ruscombe, so nearer Twyford than Maidenhead.
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« Reply #1008 on: November 03, 2015, 13:26:21 »

Yes, BMN is right.  Although it was at Ruscombe, so nearer Twyford than Maidenhead.

Smacked bottom for someone then?

Would the freight company get clobbered for the delay minutes or would NR» (Network Rail - home page) have to go after them for it?
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« Reply #1009 on: November 03, 2015, 13:32:55 »

Amended to 'Operational Incident' after 0900.
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« Reply #1010 on: November 03, 2015, 13:35:53 »

Would the freight company get clobbered for the delay minutes or would NR» (Network Rail - home page) have to go after them for it?

All depends who is to blame. A SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) needn't necessarily be the train operator's fault.
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« Reply #1011 on: November 03, 2015, 14:59:04 »

Passed by signal by approximately 60 metres so well within the safety overlap, but as it is a signal that protects a junction it would have been treated quite seriously.
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« Reply #1012 on: November 03, 2015, 16:30:34 »

In my experience, at this time of year Turbos often seem to struggle to accelerate away from TWY (Twyford station) on the Up Relief so maybe poor railhead conditions played a part?
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« Reply #1013 on: November 03, 2015, 18:25:41 »

Yes, it could have done - although it was a pretty calm morning.  As usual when a SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) occurs, a full investigation will take place including analysis of the engine's data recorder, and the driver tested for drugs/alcohol.
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« Reply #1014 on: November 03, 2015, 19:51:10 »

Yes, it could have done - although it was a pretty calm morning.  As usual when a SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) occurs, a full investigation will take place including analysis of the engine's data recorder, and the driver tested for drugs/alcohol.

.......and the signalling equipment data logger.
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« Reply #1015 on: November 03, 2015, 21:21:37 »

Yes, it could have done - although it was a pretty calm morning.  As usual when a SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) occurs, a full investigation will take place including analysis of the engine's data recorder, and the driver tested for drugs/alcohol.

.......and the signalling equipment data logger.
What's the most common cause/reason for a SPAD?
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« Reply #1016 on: November 03, 2015, 21:43:52 »

Yes, it could have done - although it was a pretty calm morning.  As usual when a SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) occurs, a full investigation will take place including analysis of the engine's data recorder, and the driver tested for drugs/alcohol.

.......and the signalling equipment data logger.
What's the most common cause/reason for a SPAD?

You can find out here http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/statistical-releases and here http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/displayreport/report/html/f94ef551-6bf5-4ae1-af4b-6b648212b0af
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« Reply #1017 on: November 03, 2015, 21:54:52 »

What's the most common cause/reason for a SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger)?
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I would guess the most common would be signal failures or the signaller deliberately placing the signal to danger, which are (or used to be) known as Category 'B' or 'C' SPAD's as the train could be running under green signals and if one suddenly goes back to red then the driver has no chance to react.  Once it is confirmed that the signals are working and the driver is fit to continue (it can be a bit of a shock depending on location) then there is usually no major disruption caused.

Category 'A' SPAD's are the most serious and their causes are widespread, ranging from faults with the train brakes, wheelslip (obviously bad this time of the year), and a whole range of human factors such as not controlling the speed of the train, misreading the signal, failure to acknowledge the cautionary aspects before, starting off from a platform where the signal is red, miscommunication with the signaller, driver micro-sleep...  I could go on.  From memory I think they get put into four different categories - Misread, Read Across (i.e. thinking the green signal on the next line is yours), Read Through (thinking the signal ahead is yours) or Disregard.  Though there's a whole range of reasons why one of those four might occur, so, after waffling for a bit I guess I can't really answer your question! 
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« Reply #1018 on: November 03, 2015, 22:10:36 »

II has given the current definitions. Below are some examples.

Some of the most serious crashes, Harrow, Lewisham, Cowden Ladbroke Grove the driver seems to have missed the signal altogether.

Faulty AWS (Automatic Warning System) was part of Southall but the driver missed the double yellow and single yellows.

The recent Wotton Basett incident the driver seems to have disabled the AWS.

Confusion of aspects Berhampstead before the war where it wasn't clear to the driver that he was being routed over a crossover and went too fast and derailed.

Colwich confusion over the flashing yellows which applied to the fast to slow crosover signal and not the actual junction signal. Driver thought they applied to the junction signal so expected signal to clear and went too fast to stop when he realised it wasn't going to change.

Read through is interesting I've read there was problem at Rushcombe on  I think the Up Relief with drivers reading through thinking the red they could see in the distance was where they had to stop and missing the signal in between. I believe it was cured by changing the angle of sight of the far signal so it wasn't so visable from before the previous signal.

I find the whole philosophy of signalling fasinating. Where do you sight the signal at the exact braking distance but where it might be obscured by a curve, bridge etc. so lessening sighting time or say in front of a bridge and reduce braking distance. Is it acceptable for trains to run under a succesion of double yellows. It was said that in steam days during the rush hour trains on the Up Main from Hampton Court Junction to Waterloo didn't see a green until the platform signal at Waterloo. They ran steadily on single yellows changing to double.

If a signal has a short sighting time do you have a banner repeater? What aspects do you show. With LEDs you now have the green banner if the signal is showing green. Previously depending on the aspect of the previous signal you had to assumme that if the banner was off the next signal imight be showing a double or single yellow so you couldn't accelerate until you saw the main aspect.

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« Reply #1019 on: November 03, 2015, 22:35:31 »

I find the whole philosophy of signalling fasinating. Where do you sight the signal at the exact braking distance but where it might be obscured by a curve, bridge etc. so lessening sighting time or say in front of a bridge and reduce braking distance.

The layman would not believe the amount of work that goes into sighting a signal to try and give the driver the best view of it.  In days gone by they were often just placed at convenient locations but now there's a whole host of factors that are considered.  Three state banner repeaters are a recent innovation and help to get round some of the problems at awkward locations.

Reading through a signal most commonly happens at night where the perception of depth is generally far less, especially when there's very little other light pollution except for the signals.

There is no doubt in my mind that a large part of the fact we've had no passenger train fatalities in nine years is thanks to TPWS (Train Protection and Warning System) which has stopped several SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger)'s from happening and greatly reduced the severity of others.  The Wootton Bassett SPAD is a great example of what could potentially happen without TPWS, in that case because it had been deliberately disabled.
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