Re: Black boxes for all trains

[matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier)]

In article <3ad77903$1@news.alphalink.com.au>,
Adam Dunning <adamdunning@start.com.au> wrote:
>By ALL, is it all trains which opperate in NSW, or is it ALL as in every
>single locomotive, EMU, railcar what ever that operate in Australia?  What
>about heritage operators?  Will they too be required to fit these black
>boxes?
>
>Just some questions that I think need to be answered or may not have been
>thought through yet by the inquest
>

 In NSW, heritage steamers already carry radios and Hasler chart recorders,
(The 'old' black box), as a result of the fall out from the Cowan accident.

 The inputs for a 'back box' exist already on all locomotives, the 'back'
box is green and records on wax tape. It might be old tech, but an event
recorder is an event recorder...

 It's the EMU's which were never fitted for event recording that will be the
biggest problem.