Re: Signals that tell you not to stop?

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

of course, every guard and driver would never think of telling fibs to
inspectors.

Tezza wrote:

> "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
> |