Re: [Melb] Footscray crash - 3 injured

[Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au>]

> > no such thing as regulation 74 anymore

"1994 Book of Rules and Operating Procedures" still has regulation 74.

We are talking about Victoria here.
 
> Do you mean that the Regulation 74 that used to permit the passing of
> automatic signals at stop after 10 seconds, although in recent years after
> other rear enders this time limit had been increased, has simply been
> renumbered or replaced with another regulation of similar intent, or do you
> mean that it is no longer permissable to pass an automatic signal at stop in
> any circumstances other than the procedures which apply to passing home
> signals at the stop position?

regulation 74 was changed to 30 seconds in lue of 10 seconds following
the rear ender at Syndal in December 1989.
(one peak hour train tipped through a red auto, then took off at speed
down hill and into the back of the other train sitting in the platform
at Syndal, ummm sounds like Holmesglen July 2000 and Footscray June
2001, but the cause of those accidents (all three) is no public, and in
the case of Footscray too early yet, but the ATSB is doing the report
this time, so it will be made public)
 

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