Runaway train, I don't think so!

Saw this on the 6pm edition and the thick reporter said that the Train took a green signal to the Piccadilly line instead of a red signal for the district.
A severe case of a reporter not having a clue what she is talking about.

Yep it happens from time to time, I got called to such an event there at WM20/21 a few years ago along with a colleague and we had to go through the whole preservation of evidence routine, lifting relay tops, pulling fuses etc for a thorough daytime failure investigation as the motorman insisted initially that the signalling was at fault.
Most often when a wrong route is pushed off there the motorman knows it and calls the signal operator, occasionally they don't notice until they have crept forward onto the points and have to set back under appropriate authority and now and again a train will take the route to avoid further delay. Incidents are similar but circumstances differ.
The last thing I'd expect at HLJ is a runaway and the most common would be yet another failure of 9's clamplock points. Maybe the points have been replaced since they were part of my maintenance area!

9's are still clamplocks and still give grief

there was an amusing bit somewhere on the other District Dave site about what happens when a DR take the wrong road at Hangar Lane by Piccadilly Pilot..

Yup - the link has gone now: shame!!

Grr - that's the second time in a week a good link has gone dead. If any one had the common sense to download the document itself (it's called 'the Hanger Lane Junction Guide' and it was by 'piccadilly pilot') please will you PM me? Thanks.

I saw the "report", full of errors, made my blood boil. Inferred because the driver took the wrong signal, an accident may have happened, scaremongering was all it was.

The thick reporter, even tried to connect it to the Northern line runaway. Regarding that incident, she said a locomotive had run away. There was no loco on the line at the time, thats why a 95ts was used.

While this incident wasn't any sort of runaway, a runaway just requires an uncontrolled movement which can happen if there is a driver in the cab. There was at least one staff member on the grinder when it started running away.

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IS there a link to the report anywhere? I've looked on the ITV London site and they still think it's Wednesday.

That's the media for you. Cars, motorbikes, buses, coaches all pass red danger signals virtually every minute risking life and limb for themselves and other road users and pedestrians and no-one bats an eyelid. A train takes an incorrect route, has problem rectified without any danger to anyone at any time and the press report it like this. It is a prime example of the complete contempt that the British media hold the railways of this country. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I'm sure that, should they be challenged, a retraction of the sensationalist nature of the report will be posted on the ITV website just after the in depth feature on Jedward!!

Theoretically there is one already - more observed in the breach than the action............

Surprised that ITV didn't think district signals should be green and Picadilly ones blue: it would make the Northern Line ones difficult to see though!