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Re: Off the Road...... and it aint CityRail
- Subject: Re: Off the Road...... and it aint CityRail
- From: "Jack" <dave60@dingoblue.net.au>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:28:30 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- References: <39929f6c$0$757$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au> <8n15a0$3m7$1@gruvel.une.edu.au>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:15849
Gday Chris
It was a screws off Journal that caused the derailment from all accounts
Cheers
Jack
Chris Reardon <creardon@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in message
news:8n15a0$3m7$1@gruvel.une.edu.au...
> Any further updates to what happened over there? From personal experience
(I
> grew up 5 km's from the Braunstone - Kungala stretch) I know the area of
the
> accident is one of the longest stretches of straight track on the North
> Coast Line (about 5 km's I think). What the hell happened? The RSA was
doing
> maintenance there over two years ago (please tell me they have finished)
and
> to my knowledge, there was a fairly slow speed limit on some parts of it.
> Could that have had something to do with it or was it something else?
>
>