Seen this video and it got me wondering: would a manoeuvre like this be allowed in the UK, or would sending trains as close as this to a head-on/side-swipe be forbidden in case of points failure?
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Reddit Post - showing 3 trains on 4 lines. Two trains on line 2 are heading towards a head-on collision, until they turn away from each other at the last possible set of points, which appears to leave only meters from a head-on. Had one set of points failed, there wouldn’t have been enough time to brake to avoid a head-on collision. Additionally, when one of the trains moves from line 2 to line 3, there is a train on line 4, giving the appearance it is going to crash into the train on line 4 until it settles on line 3.
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