Railway junction at Tulse Hill
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Railway junction at Tulse Hill by Robin Webster as part of the Geograph project.
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Railway junction at Tulse Hill
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 23 Jul 2011
A close look at the points of the double junction ahead came as a bit of a shock. There are four possible settings for such a junction, three intrinsically safe and one unsafe. The safe settings are both tracks set left; both tracks set right; left set left with right set right. The settings as photographed are left set right, right set left. This produces a potential collision at the diamond crossing. Obviously signals and supposedly fail-safe train control devices would or should prevent this, but it is still disturbing.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.438272
Longitude
-0.107013