Re: [Syd] Why do trains sound horn when leaving platform?

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

"WBrueckman" <wbrueckman@aol.com> wrote in message
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| At one of our regular Safety Meetings here in the U.S., we were shown a
video
| that I am not sure has been seen in Australia.  It shows a Chicago-area
| commuter train unloading at a suburban station on a 3-track mainline.  The
| commuters went to the end of the platform and crossed the tracks
immediately in
| front of their stopped train to get to their parking lot on the other side
of
| the tracks.  Just as one woman walks around her stopped train, she is hit
(and
| killed) by an express train using the middle track running at 100 kph.  On
| American television, the video stops right before it is obvious she is
about to
| be killed, but on the railroad, we had to endure watching the entire
uncensored
| result which turned many stomachs there in the room.  I have always made a
| practice of making all required signals prescribed by the Rules, and wish
that
| the express train in Chicago had made more liberal use of his horn as
well.


Was he required to by the rules? If it had been here, there would've been
the same result.