Re: [NSW] Five (in a car) thought dead after train crash

["Alex Pout" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

Patrick <patrick@trafficgiant.net> wrote in message
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> Also on ABC: "Rail accident sparks call for safety review"
>
> "The call from the Highway Safety Action Group follows yesterday's
> collision between an XPT train and a car near Albury, in which five
> people were killed."
>
> "'I think that if the non-operational lines around the country were
> marked clearly that they were non-operational, and marked in a
> different way to level crossings where we are likely to see trains,
> people would be more inclined to be aware that they're likely to
> confront a train at a crossing," she said.'
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2001/01/item20010128111049_1.htm
>
> Just how thick are these people?


Pretty thick.  When I'm driving around the countryside, I can tell whether a
train line is in use by
A) Grass growing through the tracks
B) Rust on the top of rails.. shiny rails = used line.
C) The semi obligatory fence across the train line at the level crossing site
(ie at Brocklesby and on the line up the New England past Armidale, I think)
D) Commonsense as to where the line goes and what it connects.  On that line,
to the north Sydney, to the south Melbourne.. educated guess, maybe a few
trains use it occasionally (excuse my sarcasm).

Al