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Re: Concord derailment

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Concord derailment
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 22:33:59 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
References: <897363815.438324@halibut.pnc.com.au> <357d16e9.0@139.134.5.33>
Reply-To: trainman@ozemail.com.au

Paul Jones wrote:

> What i heard was a an 8 car tangara was doing 110km/h on a section rated at
> 25(??)km/h.

He probably assumed that the 1½ indication before the turnout indication was to
warn him of a caution indication at the next signal.  He would have realised too
late that he was going into a very rarely used siding.

--
David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/

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