Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

[Dion Williams <onamission@start.com.au>]

Rod Gayford wrote:
 
> Well, how come the V set hit at 50 KPH if correct procedures are being
> followed. If Glenbrook station was manned at that time surely the station
> staff could have told the driver of the V set that the IP had just left at a
> crawl or is that not their job.

Presumably they could only have said anything if Penrith had rung to
inform them that signals in the following sections were defective, which
probably did not happen. 

Procedures followed to the nth degree can
> lead to disaster. A bit of commonsense and discretion is called for. 

Absolutely.

Dion