Re: High Speed lines in Australia
Krel (krel4203@netconnect.com.au)
4 Aug 97 12:15:23 GMT
David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
<33E488C0.9FF668F6@ozemail.com.au>...
> David Bromage wrote:
>
> > Is it true that on the Southern Line in NSW the level crossings will
allow
> > up to 200km/h running?
>
> No. Whenever we do speed/ride/roll testing on XPTs above 160 km/h, all
level crossings
> are manned by flagmen.
>
>
In a way it depends on whose rules you run by. On a train running at track
speed approaching a level crossing equipped with boom barriers you seem to
arrive at the crossing just as the booms touch bottom in Victoria but in
NSW you arrive well after this. So if the level crossing was in Victoria I
suspect that the answer to your question may well be in the affirmative.
Maybe its got something to do with Victorias horrid speed predictor system.
Does anyone know the official time requirement for level crossing warning
signals?
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Cheers Krel
The Law of Inverse Proportions - The chances of the signal clearing
without having to get out of the cab and go to a lineside phone is inversly
proportional to the amount of rain falling at the time :-)