Re: Rail safety - video cameras in cabs

["John Hudson" <trammie@bigpond.com>]

Hello Ron,
         Take a look at the Independ Investigation Report into the Zanthus
collision at http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/linking/rail_safety.html
Recorders on the Indian Pacific recorded all this and more. I think it says
the colour of the driver's jocks was *brown*.
Regards,

John Hudson
Brisbane, Australia


"Ronald BESDANSKY" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:EZda4.3937$oJ5.8838@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> Given that a lot of money is being spent installing video cameras in
> suburban passenger trains to try to increase passenger safety and reduce
> damage to railway property, would it be cost-effective to install them in
> all loco and EMU/DMU driving cabs? I would envisage the camera "seeing"
the
> same view as the driver, and also recording train speed, brake pressure
etc
> (perhaps another camera pointed at the gauges).
>
> This would reduce or eliminate disputes as to what happened and what the
> driver did about it. (Like the flight data recorder/cockpit voice recorder
> in planes.)
>
> Some might argue that the idea would only be to check that the driver is
> doing his/her job correctly - but no so - it would pick up such things as
> "wrong-side" signal failures and cars intruding onto level crossings. It
> would have been evidence of what was done to cause the Zanthus accident.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Rgds
>
> Ron BESDANSKY
>
>