Re: Glenbrook lessons still unlearnt, says expert

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> > > "She described the control room at Central Station, which manages rail
> > operations, as out of "1940s Britain". It did
> >                       not have an adequate level of technology, layout
or
> > operations to allow staff to fully do their work. "
> >
> > Now that's true.
> >
>
> I thaught the SRA statement that there was 7 deaths in the past 10 years
on
> the NSW rail system was the best. Obviously level crossing crashes and
> people being hit by trains aren't on the NSW system. I would have thaught
> there would be at least 7 every year.

There is a good article by Roger Ford in the latest Modern Railways about
railway fatalities, and what should be counted and what should be excluded.
Well worth reading. I don't think that you should count retards going
through crossings in the count - it is not the railways fault after all, and
is something which is beyond the ability of the railways to control.

People falling from trains because of a lack of central locking (as happened
on Countrylink) should be counted though, as it was something that the
railways had the power to prevent.

Dave