Re: Relief at last

[Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com>]

Rod Gayford wrote:

> What is to stop another accident that caused its closure in the first place
> happening again. Has the signalling been improved? Why cannot rail signals
> have a green arrow to show clearly which way points are set instead of the
> present arcane setup of orange over whatever.

Both indications (a route indicator or speed signalling) are useless unless the
driver observes the signal/indication properly. If the driver gets a Medium
speed or reduce to medium, he/she knows that he/she has to be travelling slower
than the line speed. This is the same with a route indicator, it simply tells
the driver where he/she is going and requires the driver to know what speed to
do over this route.
I think that one way of ensuring that somthing like this doesn't happen again,
is install speed trips (trip arms spaced at even intervals between signals,
timed to go down when the speed of the train has been prooved as safe), to
physically make sure that the driver cannot go too fast. Drivers hate them and
they are annoying, but effective. Unless the trip is defective, there is no way
that the driver can speed through them.

Sam