Re: [melb] Holmsglen Accident

["Johann Fan" <jyfx@optusnet.com.au>]

It is suprisingly similiar... this time it was speed (after Holmsglen bank
most empty trains are travelling at close to 115k/hr due to the slope) and a
curve just before Homsglen Stn.

The 14:11 train is timetabled to leave at 14:21 from Holmsglen, the empty
cars usually leave approx 14:24 from GWY. There must have been major
problems with the up passenger train to cause it to run so late. Could it be
<speculation> that the signal timed out and cleared because the train
stopped for so long?

cheers
Johann

"Peter Tonoli" <peter@mail.medstv.unimelb.edu.au> wrote in message
news:8lmq0g$qfc$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au...
> Johann Fan <jyfx@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > Now at home:
> > 13 people injured including driver
> > empty cars ran into the back of 1411 up train
> > 4 cars buckled/in a bad shape
> > no services between Darling and Glen Waverley.
> > replaced with a few buses.
>
> Am I the only one to think that this accident sounds very similar to
> a smash several years on the down-side at Syndal? That accident also had
> the back driver jump out.
>
> Is there something particular about the GWY line that causes these types
of
> accident, or is it just coincidence? IIRC, the crash at Syndal was caused
by
> a combination of speed and a crest between signals.
>
> Peter.