Reverse Direction Intended Functionality

So, I've been playing the Kings Cross simulation and conveniently, a train breaks down at Finsbury Park SL. A train is just infront of the pointwork that lets it cross onto the FL. I therefore tell it to Reverse Direction to get behind the pointwork. It stops when there is a train infront (unsure how to stop it early) and I then tell it to reverse direction again so that it can cross onto the FL however the direction doesn't change and each time I do it, the train says that a train is infront (direction never changed so a train being infront is correct.)

What would be the best way to solve this and does reverse direction change the direction it currently is in or does it just make the train reverse in the line direction as it currently seems to be doing?

First of all you can't just reverse trains willy nilly on a non-bidirectional line just to get around a failed train. Secondly 9S44 isn't where you think it is, the TD hasn't stepped up as it is not a proper move, and if you set the route to the Down Fast it will proceed.

A wrong-direction movement for which no signal or signalled route is provided may be authorised only in the following circumstances.

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- A train is to make a movement to return from or proceed towards a line blocked by an accident, failure, obstruction, or other exceptional incident.

The signaller's instructions have been enhanced so that when told that a train has stopped out of course, or is moving so slowly that it may come to a standstill, any action must be taken that will prevent other trains approaching that location, including telling other signallers and Operations Control. This follows an incident in which the situation was not fully appreciated, and trains became stranded for long periods in poor conditions.