and another RAIB report on a similar issue, this time at Jarrow on the Tyne & Wear Metro:
http://www.raib.gov.uk/publications/inve...262012.cfm
There seem to have been a spate of such PTI [Platform Train Interface] incidents as they are known on the London Underground recently; (thinking back not very far I recall the Victoria Line of LU and somewhere close to St Pancras on Thameslink). Seeing as the examiners will no doubt start thinking up some questions for the 2013 exam once they have finished marking 2012 papers, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find a question on this topic arises.
The Convention this year also visited Bastille where some minimum height platform doors have been installed on the vintage part of the Paris Metro which features some sharper curves than even London Underground's old lines......
It becomes an even more important issue when the trains are truly driverless (i.e. without someone in the front cab whose role is to keep a sharp look out) and it has been announced that LU will not be purchasing any more fleets of train having cabs.
http://www.raib.gov.uk/publications/inve...262012.cfm
There seem to have been a spate of such PTI [Platform Train Interface] incidents as they are known on the London Underground recently; (thinking back not very far I recall the Victoria Line of LU and somewhere close to St Pancras on Thameslink). Seeing as the examiners will no doubt start thinking up some questions for the 2013 exam once they have finished marking 2012 papers, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find a question on this topic arises.
The Convention this year also visited Bastille where some minimum height platform doors have been installed on the vintage part of the Paris Metro which features some sharper curves than even London Underground's old lines......
It becomes an even more important issue when the trains are truly driverless (i.e. without someone in the front cab whose role is to keep a sharp look out) and it has been announced that LU will not be purchasing any more fleets of train having cabs.
(27-11-2012, 01:52 PM)PJW Wrote: RAIB has published the report into the iverpool, James Street fatality: see http://www.raib.gov.uk/publications/inve...222012.cfm
PJW