I am totally lay in watching this - i don't know how I arrived here... Just the Google algorithm. I have to say to all you railways people, I didn't realise just how much you have to take into consideration to maintain a railway line (while keeping it safe). Well done to all of you from a now small amount more educated member of the public.
Not only are points failures some of the most common causes of rail disruption in the UK (in line with signalling failures, which are often intertwined with points), they are also the most dangerous part for train safety if it goes wrong. Just imagine a train speeding at 100mph going across faulty points. Potter's Bar, anyone?
Prior to Potters Bar's 2002 rail crash. Judging by the livery mentioned by Bobbingtonn which dates the video to between 1994 and 1997 based on the Network South East livery. The video is clearly from a VCR with poor tracking, rather than a DVD.
@dglcomputers1498 Points are maintained frequently but the issue is that the hardware is very old and keeps breaking. Think about all those times replacement buses go on during the weekend for engineering works. This is the time when rail infrastructure, points included, get some well deserved maintenance and repair.
@@mattaddison1910 The problem was in Railtrack days maintenance was patchy and maintenance wasn't necessarily being carried out as required, Hatfield showed that and it's why we have Network Rail now
