Regent's Park underground station lifts and sign spelling? Need pics!

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706250934430.8342@urchin.earth.li> , at
09:35:09 on Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
remarked:
>> It's actually to do with the lengths of the signal overlaps on the
>>exit from the station. A train departing a closed station at full
>>speed can crash into another train without being stopped by the
>>signalling. A train departing the station having stopped, or crawled, >>can't.
>
>Does this mean that, on the rare occasions when one of its stations is
>closed, the DLR does not suffer from this problem?

No, the stopping pattern seems irrevocably burnt in. Even when Heron
Quays was shut for rebuilding, the trains stopped where the station
should have been.
--
Roland Perry

I think that a stipulated restricted speed when passing stations is standard
procedure on many undergrounds throughout the world for a number of reasons.

"Steve Fitzgerald" <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
news:xPXC8UDRS7fGFAcj@g7kkh.... .
>
> John was quite correct with the real reason. When a train runs out of
> service (or non-stops a station) the rules state it must be travelling at
> no more than 5 mph at the station starter - there is no rule about the
> rest of the station platform.