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Re: Concord derailment

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Concord derailment
From: alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 23:54:57 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Insert smart-ass comment about messy deks here
References: <897363815.438324@halibut.pnc.com.au> <357d16e9.0@139.134.5.33> <357D2BB7.CC990122@ozemail.com.au>

On Tue, 09 Jun 1998 22:33:59 +1000, David Johnson
<trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>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.

Still... travelling at 110km/h past what he assumed would have been a
Green over Red... sounds odd.


Albert Alcoceba
alberta@zip.com.au
http://www.zip.com.au/~alberta

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