Re: Black boxes for all trains

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

> David Bromage wrote:
>
> > Every train will be fitted with aircraft-style black box data loggers
> > within 18 months following the release yesterday of the final Glenbrook
> > inquiry report.  The devices, costing $10 million, were one of 95
> > recommendations by Justice Peter McInerney in his third report following
> > the December 1999 tragedy, this time focusing on rail safety. CityRail
> > announced yesterday that it would begin installing the data loggers as
> > soon as possible to all electric trains, while diesels such as the XPT
> > and Endeavour already have them.
> >
> > http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1889611%255E421,00.html
> >
> > [Do FreightCorp locos have them? What about NR, NRR, GN, CFLC, and all
> > other operators in NSW? What about heritage locomotives?]
>

Sydney trams are fitted with them.  Following a prang the contoller will
instruct the driver to 'lock the data logger'.  But the Terrorgraph claiming
that they cost      $10M...nah!

Ted