Re: Signals that tell you not to stop?

[Marvin The Martian <"choochoo"@spin.net.au (nospam)>]

Simple explanation is the crew mis-read there timetable, at least thats what
they tell the inspectors.

Brendan wrote:

> 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"?
>
> Brendan