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tubeguru wrote:CHRIS!!! Answer please.
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We will only move on when you finally post the answer to your Waterloo photo :D
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greatkingrat wrote:We will only move on when you finally post the answer to your Waterloo photo :D
Too bloody right.
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Hehe its been a while now :P

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I have no idea what you're all talking about but will join in with the banter anway.

Yeah.. Chris! tsk.. what about the bloody Waterloo photo, eh.. eh?? Exactly.
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geofftech wrote:I have no idea what you're all talking about but will join in with the banter anway.

Yeah.. Chris! tsk.. what about the bloody Waterloo photo, eh.. eh?? Exactly.
This looks like fun! What was the answer to that picture?
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moley wrote:Quick random quiz for Monday morning.

Look at this picture that I found on the internet: Clicky

A whole point to anyone who can tell me what is wrong in the picture
A bonus point to anyone who can tell me the solution
A second bonus point to anyone who can tell me who is to blame (positions / authorities rather than specific names).

Clue: The photographer was stood on platforms 17/18 at London Waterloo this morning.
Right:

Firstly, sorry for the delay. The trains in question are South West Trains services - so dealys fall naturally into everything connected with them!

Next, the points in order:
1. As many of you correctly identified, the picture is of an 8 car Class 458 train next to a 8 car Class 450 train. Platfrom 19 at Waterloo is only 12 cars long! 16 into 12 don't go.

2. With regard to solving the problem for passengers, thankfully there is a very long platfrom extenion there with a swing gate about half way down. With the assistance of station staff, the train was detrained using the front five coaches only. (the platfrom train gap is larger at the rear of the train). The train was later given permission to start back from beyond the starter signal by the signallman and proceeded out of service to Wimbledon depot.

3. Blame would have been the signaller who set this up. The train driver had stopped well out of the platform when he realised that there was a problem however was later asked to proceed into the platform and detrain. There has been a long discussion on other groups regarding whether the driver was at fault. The conclusion is best summed up by barrykas' response:
The one person not at fault is the Driver, as they'll be used to entering occupied platforms on a regular basis, and don't query such moves unless it's blatantly obviously wrong (e.g. being signalled into an occupied 12 coach platform and they've got a 12 coach train).
The driver would have known the platform was occupied but would have assumed a 4 car unit which is allowed.

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The Raven - 1
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mullardo - 0

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If you want to berate Chris at his shoddy quiz answering speed, please do it in the thread in the quiz forum. It's called "Random Quiz" I think.
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But do note the answer first!
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Answer noted.
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This is all well and good BUT SWT drivers are advised to question the signaller when routed into an occupied platform if you are driving an 8 car train so part responsibility does lay with the driver.
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Sam wrote:This is all well and good BUT SWT drivers are advised to question the signaller when routed into an occupied platform if you are driving an 8 car train so part responsibility does lay with the driver.
But my understanding is that this is not in the rule book and merely an internal company rule?

It doesn't actually affect the scoring from memory as most people said "the signaller and maybe the driver". That said, someone did lay blame with Superman! :lol:
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It's not in the rule book, it's company instructions ;)
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