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Re: Concord derailment

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Concord derailment
From: alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:22:50 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> <357dc8cb.56638416@news.ihug.co.nz> <357F6782.F382E2FB@ozemail.com.au>

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:13:38 +1000, David Johnson
<trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>> Still... travelling at 110km/h past what he assumed would have been a
>> Green over Red... sounds odd.
>
>Not if you can easily stop by the next signal.  For example, it is common to be doing
>110 km/h and still powering past a single yellow indication (same as green over red)
>at Waterfall, because it is a couple of kilometres to the next signal.

True... yet signal spacing is much less around Concord West than
around Waterfall.

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

References:
- Concord derailment
  - From: "Darren Yates" <dyates@pnc.com.au>
- Re: Concord derailment
  - From: "Paul Jones" <dj_nightshade@geocities.com>
- Re: Concord derailment
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: Concord derailment
  - From: alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)
- Re: Concord derailment
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>

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