One thing that captured my curiosity on WCMLS. Just wonder what their function are, i assume they are some sort of approaching acknowledgment for drivers at Watford or Milton Keynes. Doubt is for night lighting
I think they’re placed where trains are parked so it’ll be safer for the train driver to walk from/to his train.
Lol, it would be funny if in one TSW service we found a traffic jam and the drivers of other trains that are stuck start to yelling at the train that blocks the path
Those lights are there to illuminate the points at junctions. Many modern day high speed routes have lights at junctions.
More likely for maintenance staff. Approaching a junction at 70MPH if you did see the points set incorrectly not a lot the driver could do about it with about two seconds notice. Most “run throughs” which can damage points tend to be during engineering possessions or similar when a wrong instruction has been given or someone failed to ask for the points to be moved before putting a train or road-railer over them. The other situation might be if a train passed a signal at danger then ran through points set against it but again that is not something illuminating the junction is going to prevent.
