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Re: Concord derailment

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: Concord derailment
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:13:38 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
References: <897363815.438324@halibut.pnc.com.au> <357d16e9.0@139.134.5.33> <357D2BB7.CC990122@ozemail.com.au> <357dc8cb.56638416@news.ihug.co.nz>
Reply-To: trainman@ozemail.com.au

Albert Alcoceba 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.

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

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