Re: Riggs Creek Smash (language warning)

["Mark Bau" <mbauco@earthlink.net>]

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In article <3a17872c.38191772@can-news.tpg.com.au>, mauried@tpg.com.au
(Maurie Daly) wrote:


> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 05:25:17 GMT, usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael)
> wrote:
>
>>dmason@deakin.edu.au (Doug Mason) wrote in <8v4jtm$hmi$1@nnrp1.deja.com>:
>>
>>>I think it is about time Freight Australia had a good look at there
>>>safety or there lack of, as all they seam to care about is getting the
>>>train there on time.  There safety record is shit.  They don’t have the
>>>locos to pull there trains, but they keep crashing them, and smashing
>>>up there wagons.  Some of the more known incidents so far are:
>>>Ararat
>>>Tongala
>>>Oaklands
>>>Riggs Creek
>>
>>Two of the above were not at the fault of the train crew. They were
>>allegedly at fault of the fuck-wit truck drivers who drove out in front of
>>the train.
>>
>>M.
>>
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> Id suggest that the Ararat accident also was not the fault of the
> train crew ,or indeed of Freight Australia, but was the fault of a
> totally unsafe safe working system.
> Key locked points on a main line which can be moved whilst a train is
> travelling towards them at full main line speed is hardly safe.
>
> MD
>

Annett locks are not unsafe, they have been used on Victorian mainlines for
about 100 years. The way the Annett lock was used at Ararat was the problem

Mark