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-- David Johnson CityRail Guard trainman@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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Message-ID: <352A5512.7E13F38@ozemail.com.au> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 02:32:19 +1000 From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> Reply-To: trainman@ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: aus.rail Subject: Re: Another City Rail Signalling Question References: <47125518$Eddie.Oliver@efs.mq.edu.au> <1998040707551800.DAA02561@ladder01.news.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MarkBau1 wrote:
> <<<<<This whole thing is, with due respect to Mark, a beat-up. There is not a > problem. > Let's not invent problems which don't exist. There are enough ones which > do.>>>>>> > > Eddie, there is a problem if you get tripped when travelling at or under the > speed limit and you have complete control of your train.
But if you are passing a low speed signal, the speed limit is 27 km/h, and if you are doing that speed limit, you won't be tripped! What is your problem with this?
> <<<<Speed proving has been existence in Sydney since the Underground was > built in the 1920's.>>>>> > > Really?, the earliest reference I can find about speed proving by the society > of British Signal Engineers, (where Australia got all of its signalling > practices) is mid '50's.
So because you can't find anything on it means it never existed? Big sigh.
-- David Johnson CityRail Guard trainman@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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