RSSB2750 - Review of the Uff-Cullen Recommendations related to train protection systems (T1169)

Following two signal passed at danger (SPAD)-related accidents at Southall (1997) and Ladbroke Grove (1999), a joint report into train protection systems was published by Professor John Uff and the Right Honourable Lord Cullen in 2001 . The Uff-Cullen report recommended the roll out of automatic train protection, in which a system intervenes if the driver of a train is going too fast or will exceed the end of a movement authority. The train protection system envisaged to meet this recommendation was the European Tr...