Re: Red Light Runners

["The Railway Rasputin II." <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

If we do our job correctly in NSW it is 100% fail safe too. Its when
people don't we have problems.

rgds

Lourie Smit wrote:
> 
> 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
> N_5m4.17091$3b6.71309@ozemail.com.au">news:N_5m4.17091$3b6.71309@ozemail.com.au...
> > 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."
> >
> >