>> Which do absolutely nothing to stop a freight train from crashing into a
>> passenger train. It's only good luck that this has never happened.
>It has, on a number of occasions. One such occasion was Liverpool station,
1965.
I should have stipulated recently I suppose. I don't know if I'd even seen a
train by 1965. What was the outcome?
>But don't forget, that the trip will only stop a train, not hold it there.
Won't stop a freight train.
>At Como some months back, a train tripped past the signal at stop, kept
>coming and hit the train in front.
Just reset did he? Like that punch drunk idiot at Strahfield/Ashfield last
year (year before?)
>Apparently the driver had been on the train for 9 hours without a break.
Lucky he wasn't on a freighter, 10 or more hours on.
>Whilst it was only low speed, it shows that nothing is better at preventing
accidents than a vigilent >and alert driver.
There still needs to be a failsafe system to stop the train. One of these
days there's gonna be a US postal worker type flip out and do some real
damage.