Shanghai Railway Administration: Signal Lights Wrongly Drive Rear Track

Core Tip: On July 28, the State Council investigation team’s plenary meeting of the rear-end collision accident was held. Shanghai Railway Commissioner said that after preliminary investigation, because of the defects in the signal light equipment at Wenzhou South Railway Station, a red light should be displayed when the green light was displayed, and no signal was provided to the rear vehicle. The relevant dispatching personnel did not issue an early warning and caused a rear-end collision. .

Xinhua News Agency, Wenzhou, July 28th: ​​Anlu Sheng, Director of the Shanghai Railway Bureau, said on the 28th that according to the preliminary analysis of the situation, the “7.23” motor car accident was due to serious design flaws in the signal equipment of Wenzhou South Railway Station and was struck by lightning. After the fault, the signal of the zone signal that should have been displayed in red was incorrectly displayed as a green light.

An Lusheng said in a plenary session of the State Council “7·23” Wenzhou-Shanjiang special railway accident that was held in Wenzhou on that day that the signal device with design flaws was designed by a research and design institute in Beijing and put into use on September 28, 2009.

When he analyzed the problems of the railway department, he said that after the lightning caused the signal device failure at Wenzhou South Railway Station, the electric watchman did not realize that the signal may be displayed incorrectly, and the sensitivity of safety awareness was not strong; the key personnel of the Wenzhou South Station on the new equipment The lack of understanding of the performance and the inability to effectively detect and dispose of equipment in a timely manner revealed that the education and training of employees in the railway sector was not in place.

An Lusheng also said that the incidents reflect the ineffectiveness of field operations, and that the on-duty personnel of Wenzhou South Railway Station did not handle the faults according to the relevant regulations and failed to effectively prevent accidents; the equipment quality, personnel quality, on-site control and other issues reflected in the accidents This shows that the security foundation of the railway sector is still relatively weak, and these problems reflect that the safety management of the railway sector is not in place.