Re: [Melb] Footscray crash - 3 injured

["DJ" <no.one@home.com.au>]

no such thing as regulation 74 anymore

"Michael" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
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> OgO <quentisl@leaves.qjc.cjb.net> wrote in article
> <Xns90B88B2699DC6ogo1mynxwowaustcom@203.109.250.24>:
>
> >I was wondering: Wouldn't (one of) the trains have gone through
> >a red signal?  and, what happens when a train goes through a red
> >signal - I thought that it tripped the trains brakes, or at the
> >very least set off alarms and things.  I'm just curious.
>
> So many variables involved. I have no idea what the cause was (just to
make
> that known), that's for the investigation to decide.
>
> a) Faulty signals - likelyhood as far as I'm aware is quite low. Could be
a
> wrong light indication (in which case the train would trip), could be a
> faulty trip arm (in which case the driver would have seen the red
> indication), could have been both (faulty track circuit?).
>
> b) Regulation 74 - the regulation that allows a train to proceed from an
> automatic signal at stop after a predefined time, I think it's 30 seconds.
> This regulation also requires the driver to drive at a speed where (s)he
> can stop short of any obstruction. The second set running empty cars to
> Newport hence would had to have stopped at the signal prior for 30
seconds,
> trip past it, and continue at a safe speed. Regulation 74 also isn't valid
> at home signals.
>
> c) Assuming regulation 74, the train could have had faulty brakes, the
> driver could have misjudged a safe speed, may not have seen the train in
> the platform (it is on a curve so it is possible), may not have been
paying
> attention, or a myriad of other things.
>
> People (and especially the media) are always quick to place a blame on
> something and sticking to it, without knowing the variables that would
have
> contributed to it. What we do know is, that Bayside Trains certainly
didn't
> want it to happen, and we can be reasonably sure that the driver really
> didn't want it to happen.
>
> M.
>
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