RAILSTAFF MAY 2016
TRACK SAFETY
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The 1339 Penzance to Exeter service collided with the stationary 1542 Plymouth to Paddington train at Plymouth station.
CUT LEVEL 5 GLOVES train radio equipment. Inevitably the report refers back to the accident at Polmont back in July 1984 when a train struck a cow and derailed a passenger train travelling at 85 mph and resulted in three fatalities and 17 people being seriously injured. The requirements for deflectors were made as a result of the Polmont accident.
the report expresses concerns that there is no prescripted timescale in the standard. Three types of boundary barrier are also specified. An inspection just 24 days before the accident rated the fencing as likelihood 3, consequence 4 and condition 2 giving a 14 out of 20 score but with the recorded comment “no work required”.
35 injured at Plymouth “No work required” On October 11th 2015 eight sheep were reported to be on the line near Godmersham Substation having gained access following criminal damage to temporary fencing and the theft of equipment. The repairs to fencing were completed last November. RAIB’s report includes a standard risk rating matrix in a four by four format that plots likelihood against consequence. “Very poor” and a high score may result in a renewal proposal but
Last month on Sunday April 3rd a train consisting of two Class 150 DMU’s (four vehicles in all) entered Platform 6 at Plymouth Station and collided with a stationary train that was already in the platform. Thirty five people including one of the train drivers were injured, some of them seriously. The stationary train had arrived some 34 minutes earlier needing fresh catering supplies, but platform 7 (which it usually used) was not available because its lifts were closed for maintenance.
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