edwin_m
Veteran Member
From https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...r-light-signalling.166778/page-2#post-3538458
Going by the list on Wikipedia, the last one I can see is Colwich in 1986 when the speed of approach and short overrun might have been too much for a TPWS installation (although perhaps not for TPWS+).
The project that eventually led to TPWS looked back (in about 1994) to all accidents since about 1968 and estimated what would have happened had either what became TPWS or an ATP system been available. A simple TPWS (not TPWS+) was predicted to avoid some 70% of ATP-preventable fatalities. This conclusion was bad-mouthed by Uff-Cullen but has pretty much been borne out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ited_Kingdom#1995_onwards:_Post-privatisation
Question (which I have asked elsewhere and not got an answer): when was the last UK rail accident resulting in at least one fatality that could only have been prevented by ATP i.e. TPWS and/or AWS would not have prevented it?
Going by the list on Wikipedia, the last one I can see is Colwich in 1986 when the speed of approach and short overrun might have been too much for a TPWS installation (although perhaps not for TPWS+).
The project that eventually led to TPWS looked back (in about 1994) to all accidents since about 1968 and estimated what would have happened had either what became TPWS or an ATP system been available. A simple TPWS (not TPWS+) was predicted to avoid some 70% of ATP-preventable fatalities. This conclusion was bad-mouthed by Uff-Cullen but has pretty much been borne out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ited_Kingdom#1995_onwards:_Post-privatisation