Head on tube collision avoided
There were calls today for an urgent investigation into a near miss on the Northern Line on Monday evening after the RMT union claimed a head on collision was narrowly avoided.
RMT challenges Underground to release CCTV
In response to the London Underground statement, an RMT spokesman told ITV London:
"We dispute all of that. It was the automatic operating system that allowed the train onto the track, the incident happened just north of Finchley.
Witnesses say that the trains were at a maximum 200 metres apart and yes the drivers did see each other's vehicles, RMT confirms that.
The driver received a breaking warning signal in the cab...but it was the driver himself who then had to reverse the train back into the station.
We believe that there is also CCTV of the incident and we are challenging London Underground to release that and to agree to a full external investigation."
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