Talk:Newton rail crash
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The statement caused much confusion to drivers at the new signalling arrangement is a bit over the top.
The accident occurred because one driver went through a red signal. This could still happened on a convential double track junction. The single lead junction does increase the chance of a collision if a driver does a SPAD, but neither does a double junction eliminate all risk.
Tabletop 14:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Aftermath
According to reports The configuration adopted for this particular junction was unnecessarily constrained and was strongly criticised by contemporary commentators (Hall 1999), and was altered immediately afterwards.
But how was it altered? Back to the original low speed ddouble junction with a diamond crossing or a higher speed double junction with a ladder crossover?
Tabletop 12:07, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
