Re: Concord derailment

["Ben Staples" <BenKim@bigpond.com>]

>From what I know of signalling, If a driver of a passenger train approaches
a medium caution (green over yellow) then he/she can travel past that signal
at line speed i.e. it is treated as a proceed indictation (green over
green). Is this correct? Though I presume that when approaching an
interlocking a driver make take extra care and drive for the slowest
possible route to be set. So, every time a train approcahes Concord West and
the signal is at medium caution, does the driver have to slow down to 25km/h
just in case the road has been set to take the Up Sub. I wonder if there is
enough distance to reduce your speed accordingly with the signal spacing at
this point.

Ben Staples
Graduate Engineer
RSA Metro North

David Johnson wrote in message <357D2BB7.CC990122@ozemail.com.au>...
>Paul Jones wrote:
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>> 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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