Re: [VIC] Accident at Deer Park?

["Rod Young" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

Sam,
 last night and again this morning, all trains to and from Bacchus Marsh
[and beyond] were running on manual caution orders. This was due to a total
failure of most signals from Sunshine to Deer Park Junction [based on the
heavy local radio traffic]
I believe a large remote signalling cabinet was destroyed in the level
crossing accident.

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Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Heard on the 1600 news on Fox FM (cannot vouch for its reliability) that
> a car has got in the way of a train (they didn't quite put it that way)
> at Deer Park. The report said that it  a Freight train was involved, and
> that the accident damaged a Signal Box.
>
> AFAIK, all freight runs via North Geelong now, unless it was a balast
> train using the quarry?
> There are no signal boxes at Deer Park (controlled by Sunshine), was it
> perhaps a relay box?
>
> Can anyone shed any more light on this?
>
> Sam Eades
>