> Agreed Maurie, and there is the problem of trains that
> are scheduled to cross another and head into a switch
> set for the crossing loop at 100 clicks or so.?
> It is a bit late too try and stop it then, you would
> need to extend the system so that trains would be
> detected several Km's away from the crossing loop and
> if a driver does not acknowledge the warning, a full
> brake application is made to prevent the thing
> barrelling into the loop at high speed.
> This happened last year out on the Trans and resulted
> in a very expensive pile up.!
Wasn't this caused by the point detection failing and causing the signal to display
a full clear indication instead of a turnout?
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