Re: [NSW] Tangara Derailment , Hornsby

["K.Andronicus" <kda4203@telpacific.com.au>]

If you designed Hornsby WHY DID YOU PUT A CATCH POINT ON THE
BLOODY MAIN LINE?????. Somebody is only looking for trouble I'll give
it six months before somebody goes thru them.
Kim Andronicus
Countrylink Driver Sydney
<signal_spotter@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > Regarding what happened at Hornsby the other evening I've been
> informed by a
> > source that I consider most reliable that the T-set came from Berowra
> into
> > platform 3 (up main).  It then reversed and proceeded northwards past
> HY55
> > over 522 points which were reverse for a move set from no. 2
> platform - so
> > the lead bogie trailed through the points.
> >
> > In an attempt to try to retrieve the situation, the train was then
> driven
> > back towards the platform. The lead car's second bogie was on the
> station
> > side of 522 (on the up main) and the first bogie was on the northern
> side
> > with the points still reverse, i.e. set for number 2 platform. The
> result -
> > Sydney end bogie to platform 3, country end bogie to platform 2.
> >
> This explanation is the most plausible and sort of what I thought
> happened. Having designed Hornsby, I know it pretty well. Although I
> don't like to speculate on such matters, I wouldn't rely on what the
> media puts in the papers explaining the reasons either. So although
> aus.rail may have some rumour mongering, it does have experts in the
> various diciplines of the railways. And that's something the media
> doesn't have.
>
> regards Ian
> Signal Design Engineer
>
>
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