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Re: Failed Windscreen Test

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Failed Windscreen Test
From: Craig Haber <albatross@harnessnet.com.au>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:48:25 -0800
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Harness-net
References: <01bd26b4$c4b35de0$704c0acb@davibenn.pcug.org.au> <34C74A5F.61EC2103@ozemail.com.au>

David Johnson wrote:
> 
> David Bennetts wrote:
> 
> > Interesting little anecdote on ABC radio last night about testing loco
> > windscreen for high speed train in Britain.
> 
> The Exploder/Endanger windscreens are designed to withstand a house brick at 160
> km/h.  The glass is 55mm thick.

A snippet in today's Herald Sun (Friday 23/1) on page 22 says a driver
was injured by a bottle thrown through the front window of a freight
train at Jacana.  Aren't all loco windscreen's now bulletproof - surely
the bottle should have broken and not the windscreen.  A road magazine
road-tested G517 a few years back - they reckoned a supermarket bag full
of water hanging from an overbridge was sufficient to break the
bulletproof windscreens.

Cheers,
Craig.
-- 
Craig Haber
albatross@harnessnet.com.au
Manufacturing Systems Engineer (almost) 
Web Page Designer, Harness Racing, Railways, and Essendon Football Club
fanatic
http://www.harnessnet.com.au/

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References:
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  - From: "David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>
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