Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz>]

Dave Proctor wrote:
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> David McLoughlin <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
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> > Does that line have train-stop-arms to stop electric trains that pass
> > through a stop signal?
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> No.

That's what I feared.

Is it common in Sydney for this standard safety feature to be omitted
from train lines?

Of course if there was a general signal failure it wouldn't have helped
anyway.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand

"Tsing siu sum che mun – please stand clear of the door." 
-- Bilingual (Cantonese-English) announcement as the doors close on
trains of Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway.