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Originally Posted by ticketsmustbeshewn
...I note with great interest that it covers the Cowden crash. I was on duty on the Uckfield line on that fateful Saturday & was speaking to two of the people who passed away just 20 minutes before the head-on collision....
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HiSteve. That's very sad.
It reminds me of when I was road learning Selhurst Depot after joining Thameslink. The instructor asked me why there was an AWS magnet on the exit road. I didn't know because all the SouthEastern depots I signed didn't have them.
It was because of the Cowden collision that it became a requirement to test the leading cab AWS on leaving a depot.
Best wishes, John