Re: Red Light Runners

["Lourie Smit" <lsmit@ozemail.com.au>]

The following is a copy of an email I received direct from William Brock and
does not appear to have been posted to aus.rail:-
"Why don't your railways do as we have to in Queensland and have a much
safer
and strict safe working system, where if we have a red signal that can't be
cleared we must stop and obtain a special authority written on a special
form to travel over that section of track. I feel that under our system if
we all do our job correctly it is 100% fail safe."

Lourie Smit <lsmit@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Following is an extract from an article in today's Daily Telegraph on the
> above subject:
> " The number of train drivers (in NSW) running red signals has nearly
> doubled during the past five years, new figures show.
> There were 97 trains across the state's rail network last year that passed
> "signals at stop" without following proper procedures, up from 49 notified
> incidents in 1995.
> Under safe working procedures, a train may proceed through a red signal
> after a minute - provided it proceeds slowly and contacts the nearest
signal
> box.
> In 1995 49 trains ignored stop signs, 67 in 1996, 61 in 1997, 73 in 1998
and
> 97 last year.
> the figures were released in response to a request for rail incident
> statistics from the State Opposition."
>
>