Re: [NSW] Tangara problems

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

<thebaron@nospam.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:8tktkd$1ssi$1@pc1762.alcatel.com.au...
> Thats what they did in the beresfield accident at 60km/h 100M from the
> train they plowed into.

Saved their lives. The idiot Locomotive Operations Manager at Delec at the
time, Ray Sullivan, issued a paper saying Drivers should stay in the cab and
ride out crashes.


> Still what Tezza said is still correct hang on
> till there's no more hope.

I was only having a joke about what you said "Maybe the TMS is intelligent
enough to know when the train is about to derail."


> What did the driver of the suburban at Glenbrook do?

He ran through the carriage warning passengers.


> Erk <erk@erkv69.au.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > |> > >The middle door on the front of the T set, where it's a slight push
> > |> > >outwards (from the driver's compartment) and then it goes towards
the
> > |> > >side. It has an "EMERGENCY DOOR" sticker on it. They seem to open
> > |> > >without anyone's help really.
> > |> >
> > |> > Maybe it's an emergency precaution. Maybe the TMS is intelligent
enough
> > |to
> > |> > know when the train is about to derail.
> > |>
> > |>
> > |> Next time it comes open then, I'm abandoning ship.
> > |>
> > |>
> > |Out the front of a moving train??  Maybe the maritime saying here would
be
> > |of benefit... stick with your boat until it becomes uninhabitable, don't
go
> > |for your liferaft at the first sign of trouble....
>
>