Re: Signals that tell you not to stop?

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Brendan" <nadnerb_2000@nospam.start.com.au> wrote in message
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> Yesterday evening travelling from Central to Strathfield on CityRail, we
> bypassed the scheduled stop of Ashfield. The train had slowed down to
about
> 40 k's on the approah, but then seemingly the brakes went off, the
throttle
> was put in top notch and we roared through. This of course, aggravated
> commuters who had only seconds before been told that there would be a stop
> there, only to have to change at Croydon (which was not a scheduled stop).
>
> The guard announced about 60 secs after passing ashfield that the error
was
> due to a signal problem.
>
> Is anyone aware of a signaling situation that would do that? Or, is it the
> case, as is my suspicion, that "signal failure" is CityRailish for "the
> driver stuffed up"?

Could have been on the Down Main, which does not have a platform at Ashfield
but does at Croydon. Only possible explanation I can think of for it being a
signalling error, i.e. it was not switched over to the Suburban or Local.

Dave