FATAL SIGNALS AT STECHFORD

摘要

Assume nothing, the mantra pressed home time and time again across safety critical industries and services. Indeed, it can be extended across most things in our daily working and personal lives. Nevertheless history has shown on numerous occasions the relevance of the old saying that 'familiarity breeds contempt'. Despite complex and well-designed signalling and interlocking systems, the railway is not excluded from the consequences of assumption, not least because signals and instructions require interpretation, observance, communication, and crucially, application by individuals.