Re: Plane/train collisions

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

The Pollard book gives details of "interlocking" between rail signals and
airport control tower at Sydney.

In my only visit to Wynyard (Tas) I dimly recall (through the fog of the
previous night's Boags) a set of road-style traffic lights on the runway,
but I was more interested in the green M class which was passing at the
time. Does anybody know about the safeworking details of the crossing?

Jonathan Lau wrote in message <39336D74.D0CF7C29@ozemail.com.au>...
>David Bromage wrote:
>
>> There are several examples in Australia of railways running very close to
>> and even through airports (e.g. Wynyard). Have there been many instances
>> of planes colliding with trains? I read somewhere that a DC-3 clipped a
>> coal train on the Botany goods line in the 1930s.
>>
>
>A full account of the accident with pictures & maps appear in "The Story of
>the Sydenham to Botany Railway" book by Neville Pollard. It happened on
18th
>June 1950 - nearly 50 years ago!
>
>Jon Lau
>