Re: Beresfield Accident Findings

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

David Johnson wrote in message <354C931A.5350016B@ozemail.com.au>...
>Tezza wrote:

>> It's fairly rare, there's more chance of it coming out of the bottom than
>> the top. All that'll come off the top is virtually dust, as the coal is
>> crushed, not in big lumps.

>I once saw a coal train go under a pedestrian bridge.  The last wagon was
poorly
>loaded, with a lump approximately 3 feet high on it.  As this wagon went
under
>the bridge, the entire lump slammed into the bridge and covered the whole
bridge
>in coal!



They quite often tend to overload the trucks, whether it's coal, ballast or
containers. With no weighbridges around any more it's open slather.