Re: Concord derailment

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

So David, what you are saying is that it is the main fault of the driver,
though I have seen safe working compromised many time before. I have seen
many guards/drivers breaking safeworking rules of late, and this must force
the spot light on State Rail and its safety regime.

One example (even though it is not a State Rail problem) is four NR
employees being "on track" without orange safety vests that I observed
today. If one safewokring rule can be broken for expediency, all rules can
be broken for expediency.

Ben Staples
Graduate Engineer
RSA Metro North


David Johnson wrote in message <357F6666.82ABBA53@ozemail.com.au>...
>Ben Staples wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>The driver can pass a medium caution at line speed, provided he has the
train
>under control to either stop in two signals time, or be travelling at the
>correct speed for the turnout at the next signal, whichever is slower.
>
>--
>David Johnson
>CityRail Guard
>trainman@ozemail.com.au
>http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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