Much obliged indeed for the photos Andy@34F. The locking design looks a bit ancient!
I'm sure you'll be right about the essence of that Rule not being changed (though its number and/or precise wording may have) : In earlier times (of the '1950' Rule Book) it was well-known to be part of Rule 39, so it must have had at least one other different number along the way; - for the 1972(?) (the first loose-leaf) Rule book, and through the period when the "Personalised Rule Book" held sway.
Barkston East Junction
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Re: Barkston East Junction
Working down past Orgreaves box we had a green colour light when we came out of the fog at the next box the light was red and a train backing across in front to of us.
We managed to stop short although past the signal by a few yards.
On going to the box my driver, who needless to say was a bit upset, and he was a big guy, so he went instead of me, found the signalman and a couple of signal fitters drinking tea with no idea what he was talking about
The fitters both dashed downstairs and he found they didn't want to talk to him, in fact they had locked the door behind them.
He reported the incident but the B------s talked their way out of it.
Obviously crossed wires somewhere but never proved.
But another occasion standing in the down goods behind Sheffield Vic' one night the semaphore came of for us to go out over the Wicker arches
In the lights I could see the trap points were still open so told my mate who came to my side and saw the same although the board was still off.
He went across to the box and asked the bobby what was wrong and when he looked at his repeater the board was showing off although the signal lever was in the on position.
He closed the points pulled the signal lever and then put it back and opened the points again, the repeater went to stop
He actually came out and looked at the signal which by then was back on.
We never did find out why but we nearly had an O2 on the ground that night
We managed to stop short although past the signal by a few yards.
On going to the box my driver, who needless to say was a bit upset, and he was a big guy, so he went instead of me, found the signalman and a couple of signal fitters drinking tea with no idea what he was talking about
The fitters both dashed downstairs and he found they didn't want to talk to him, in fact they had locked the door behind them.
He reported the incident but the B------s talked their way out of it.
Obviously crossed wires somewhere but never proved.
But another occasion standing in the down goods behind Sheffield Vic' one night the semaphore came of for us to go out over the Wicker arches
In the lights I could see the trap points were still open so told my mate who came to my side and saw the same although the board was still off.
He went across to the box and asked the bobby what was wrong and when he looked at his repeater the board was showing off although the signal lever was in the on position.
He closed the points pulled the signal lever and then put it back and opened the points again, the repeater went to stop
He actually came out and looked at the signal which by then was back on.
We never did find out why but we nearly had an O2 on the ground that night
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Re: Barkston East Junction
With regard to 'Technical SPADS' there's a recent example to be found on the Railways Archives accidents file; Bletchley Jct 20 Aug 2012.In essence; the Virgin trains driver of a light engine on the up slow had been 'approach controlled' to a junction signal, which was held at red 'til the loco was close. The signal then displayed a theatre type 'F' and the signal cleared to green. The driver does not appear to have realised the significance of the F (which indicated he was being signalled through a low speed crossover onto the fast line) and accelerated hard, with the result that the loco tilted to the left through the right hand turnout but unfortunately when the right hand side came down again on the straight it missed the rails and the loco derailed.
It's an interesting accident report. You may detect that for some reason the driver was keen to get home. An interesting observation on the spare capacity of the WCML is that the light engine left Crewe about half an hour early and handsomely exceeded speed limits, but running considerably ahead of its path apparently it did not get held or knocked by other trains.
Interesting to read. Try to forget though when you're on a Pendolino not running on its usual route or on the slow.
It's an interesting accident report. You may detect that for some reason the driver was keen to get home. An interesting observation on the spare capacity of the WCML is that the light engine left Crewe about half an hour early and handsomely exceeded speed limits, but running considerably ahead of its path apparently it did not get held or knocked by other trains.
Interesting to read. Try to forget though when you're on a Pendolino not running on its usual route or on the slow.