Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

[Don Allitt <nahgfa@zeta.org.au>]

At say 40kph it would travel 11 Meters a second less braking time.So that
is at least 10 seconds to get back to warn.So how good are the brakes on
the trains?? I know if i jam the car brakes on i will stop in less than
100 meters.Don.

Bill Bolton wrote:

> Richard <richard_snook@primus.com.au> wrote:
>
> > What is LOW? and what evidence??
>
> Low enough not to distrurb the track or overhead in the vicinity of
> the accident according to reports from railworkers in this forum.
>
> Low enough for a resident adjacent to the crash scene to comment on
> ABC radio that he heard another train approachining slowly.
>
> Low enough for the driver to get out of the cab and half way down the
> car from a estimated 100 metre sighting distance, according to several
> passenger "eyewitness" statements reported in the press.
>
> We don't have a numerical value to put on "low" as yet, but presumably
> that will become known during the enquiry.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill