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Re: Plane/train collisions

Subject: Re: Plane/train collisions
From: Barry Campbell <barryC@qimr.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:54:55 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Qld Institute of Medical Research
References: <v4FY4.1373$Il2.453343@news0.optus.net.au>
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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.
> 
The North - South runway at KSA which was on a different alignment then
used to be crossed by the Botany line which did not make the deviation
around the airport that it makes now. ISTR that a plane/train collision
did occur but I can't remember when.

Barry Campbell

References:
- Plane/train collisions
  - From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)

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