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Re: Ghan derailment.


Royce Columbine <emmc@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:tBHa4.4748$oJ5.10900@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> Going to be a few angry passengers when they get to Alice Springs and
don't
> have their cars......
>
> Kym
>
> Exnarc wrote in message <84ebdr$qfj$1@otis.netspace.net.au>...
> >Interesting point for those that believe that fitters should attend all
> >signal failures:
> >
> >Even with fitters in attendance the Driver for both (UP & DOWN) movements
> to
> >& From No. 1 Platform had to be issued with a Caution Order to pass the
> >"RED" Home signals that protect all the BG cross movements to the yard.
> >
> >Imagine the passengers having to wait for the problem to be fixed ie:
> >Proceed Aspects (not caution orders covered by rules that are proven to
be
> >safe). The train would probably still be sitting there.
> >
I don't know that the passengers killed at Glenbrook would have minded
waiting.
Rgds

Ron BESDANSKY