Low Speed Derailment Sheffield 11/11

[WestRiding]

Ah.

I thought the derailment happened just after the section where the platform ends

Presumably you can still signal stock into the through line though that is going to stable there?

Presumably you can still signal stock into the through line though that is going to stable there?

Nothing has ever stabled on the through line. In pink on the picture is what we can use at this moment in time.

 

[edwin_m]

Ah.

I thought the derailment happened just after the section where the platform ends

According to the report it was on the trailing point which is within the platform, but the actual rail where the train derailed is one only used by trains on the centre road. A passenger train (without passengers) would be much lighter, so would exert less force on the track and would be much less prone to this sort of derailment.

 

[_toommm_]

Nothing has ever stabled on the through line. In pink on the picture is what we can use at this moment in time.
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I must be remembering incorrectly then, I swear stock used to stable on the through line and the siding next to it.

 

[Spartacus]

I must be remembering incorrectly then, I swear stock used to stable on the through line and the siding next to it.

Are you perhaps thinking of the two lines on the up side between 5 and 6? Both of those are stabling sidings.

 

[ainsworth74]

Are you perhaps thinking of the two lines on the down side between 5 and 6? Both of those are stabling sidings.

I saw a pair of units dumped (engines off, no sign of driver onboard) between platforms 2b and 1b yesterday though? Or are we using different definitions of stabling?

 

[WestRiding]

I saw a pair of units dumped (engines off, no sign of driver onboard) between platforms 2b and 1b yesterday though? Or are we using different definitions of stabling?

That would have been on the Down Station Siding, alongside P2. The Through line is alongside P1, when the track isn't missing.

 

[Spartacus]

I saw a pair of units dumped (engines off, no sign of driver onboard) between platforms 2b and 1b yesterday though? Or are we using different definitions of stabling?

Sorry, meant the up side, now corrected. There's two lines on the down side, the Down Stabling Siding closest to platform 2a & 2b, and the Through Line, closest to platform 1. Under normal circumstances the latter shouldn't have anything stabled on it, while the up side has two stabling sidings.

 

[ainsworth74]

Gotcha both, thanks