Re: Signals that tell you not to stop?

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

"Marvin The Martian" <"choochoo"@(nospam)spin.net.au> wrote in message
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| Simple explanation is the crew mis-read there timetable, at least thats
what
| they tell the inspectors.

But only when it's true of course.


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| 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
|