Re: Derailment at Concort West - Reason

[Eben Levy <ebenlevy@klever.net.au>]

Wollongong Quokka wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 McFergus@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> > In some locations (e.g. Cabramatta, Merrylands) the Green over Yellow warning
> > of a divergence is replaced with the normal aspect (the aspect the driver
> > would get if they *weren't* taking the turnout) together with British Rail
> > style lunar lights indicating the route the driver is to take. Instead of a
> > Yellow over Yellow at the junction, they get the normal aspect, with a
> > dot-matrix letter confirming the route:
> >
> >
> >            o
> >             o
> >              o           |B|
> > G            G            G  [tn'out]  G
> > G   ----->   G   ----->   G   ----->   G
> >
> >
> > Whilst I'm not sure of the signalling arrangement at Concord, it seems that
> > confusion over the meaning of signals may have been a contributing factor. The
> > above arrangement would help reduce such confusion.
>
> A variation on this theme appears to be fairly common on the South Coast
> line, with the use of a fairly obvious indication of a turnout.  Is there
> any reason why this appears to be the case here and not elsewhere?
>
> Would it have made any difference at Concord?

They use single light color indication down there, wich uses different indicators.

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