>David Bromage wrote:
>> As it was relatively early in the morning, could the driver have been
>> looking into the sun and missed a signal?
>He would have had to have missed three signals.
Where the crash occurred the train would have been travelling due east on a
long slightly downhill dead straight section,so that if the sun behind a
signal was the problem it would also have been a problem for 3 or even 10
signals.Since presumably the 2nd person also missed seeing the 3 signals or
how many there were,its not an unreasonable theory.
At least the old upper semaphores have an advantage over lights in this regard.
cheers
MD
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Maurie Daly
Department of Communications Lab.
Canberra
Australia
mauried@commslab.gov.au
ph 6 2791331
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