Buffer stops

>
> I was working in Waterloo offices one day when a train hit those hydraulic
> buffers. Although there were no injuries - so the buffers had done their
> job properly, BR paid quite a lot of money in compensation to people whose
> clothes were ruined by the dirty water coming down from the roof.

Again, as with "mixed speeds" this is a purely acedemic question isnt
it?
The rulebook says you stop 6 foot from a buffer stop or dead end
platform.
Id also guess that pretty much every terminal station or bay platform
is TPWS governed anyway (certainly where passengers are involved) and
the TPWS system would do its best to stop you hitting the buffers, if
it thought you were about to...

Catford Loopy <dastardly@muttley.flyer.co.uk> wrote in message news:<borftg$41p$1$8300dec7@news.>...
> The Fish wrote:
>
>
> > Id also guess that pretty much every terminal station or bay platform
> > is TPWS governed anyway (certainly where passengers are involved) and
> > the TPWS system would do its best to stop you hitting the buffers, if
> > it thought you were about to...

I wouldn't like to hit a fixed stop block at anything like 10 mph.

How do these TPWS transponder (if that is the correct word) things
work anyway? There seem to be single ones, double ones and very small
ones. Sometimes there is just one of them, and sometimes loads of
them; one of the platforms at East Croydon has about six of them,
while the other platforms have less.

Catford Loopy <dastardly@muttley.flyer.co.uk> wrote in message news:<borftg$41p$1$8300dec7@news.>...
> The Fish wrote:
>
>
> > Id also guess that pretty much every terminal station or bay platform
> > is TPWS governed anyway (certainly where passengers are involved) and
> > the TPWS system would do its best to stop you hitting the buffers, if
> > it thought you were about to...
>
> TPWS prior to buffer stops is only a speed trap, so provided your train
> was moving at less than approx 10 mph (for mini grids)it would happily
> let you smash into the stops.


This is being ever so slightly pedantic dont you think? I mean, TOC's
trust drivers with peoples lives and millions of pounds worth of
equiptment. Stopping correctly at buffer stops goes without saying
doesnt it?
I mean, you and i are saying the same thing (albeit worded
differently) and basically TPWS at a terminal is to stop you hitting
the buffers. OK, you could travel at below the trigger speed and hit
them if you really wanted to, but if you were that desperate to smash
into the buffers, isolate TPWS/AWS and smash into them at 90mph. Youll
get on the front page of the national newspaper then, lol.