Re: Beresfield Accident Findings

["Tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au>]

Matthew Geier wrote in message <6iglqt$ob8@metro.usyd.edu.au>...
>"Tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au> writes:
>>Eddie Oliver wrote in message <354BB0CF.7CB0@efs.mq.edu.au>...

>>>And that there are no other bits of junk lying around
>>>our brilliantly well maintained tracks?


>>All well away from any trip. CityRail doesn't seem to have a problem with
>>trains being tripped.

> On their lines. Try running a spark on the goods line between Meeks Rd
>and Campsie. We got tripped 3 times by high ballast a few years back when
>we took a spark that way.


A remote incident. ETR are running more and more on the goods roads and
don't seem to have a problem. As you said that was three years ago and
obviously after trackwork.

> It is not known for the sparks to hit high balast after track work.



You mean it *is* known? So how many times in your experience?