Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

["Neil Gerace" <geracen@wantree.com.au>]

Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> wrote in message
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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?
>
> No.
>
> A passenger from the IP said that an announcement was put across the train
> that they would be late arriving in Sydney due to some signalling faults,
> and that that was the reason the IP was stationary.

Given the possibility of faulty signals, and the topography, the IP driver
could not assume following trains knew that he was stopped unless he told
them himself. Did he?

cheers
Neil