There's a paragraph referring to this incident in the
RAIB▸ report into a near miss involving a freight train and two
passenger trains at Carstairs on 22nd December 2009 that was released today....
136 More recently, on 20 December 2010, an incident occurred in snowy conditions at Uphill junction, near to Weston-super-Mare when a passenger train passed a red signal by about 375 metres and ran through a set of trailing points, causing damage to them. This train was a service from Newton Abbot to London Paddington and was formed by a High Speed Train (HST▸ ) which has coaches that are fitted with brake pads and discs. The train^s data recorder showed that the driver did not correctly carry out the instructions in Section 18 of module TW1 of the Rule Book relating to braking in snow conditions. While the driver did carry out running brake tests at the required frequency, he did not make a full service brake application and reduce the train^s speed by at least 10 mph (16 km/h). After this incident the train operating company reissued a notice to its drivers which mandated them to comply with the full requirements of the rules in Section 18 of module TW1 whenever there was snow lying on the ground. This was in addition to the requirement for drivers to apply these rules when snow is falling or fallen snow is being disturbed by the passage of trains. This notice was later withdrawn when the weather conditions improved.
I would assume that there won't be a full report as they usually indicate when an event is still under investigation.
TLM
PS Mods - could we change the thread title please to reflect the now historical nature of the subject?
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