Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Bill Bolton wrote in message <05fp4skf21hdr75d9dikaibhc25opodm4r@4ax.com>...
>Tony Gatt <baulko@tig.com.au> wrote:
>
>> and for that fact.. you too are unaware of what really took place..
>> the evidence points at it not being low enough to avoid impact. therefore
>> making it too fast.
>
>I've already specifically commented that the speed, whatever it turns
>out to be, *may* well have been too fast for the circumstances.  I'm
>just pointing out there is no circumstantial evidence *at all* to
>support the figures of 50 kmh and 60 kmh that some posters have been
>using.

And all that I have been doing is saying that the provision of train stops
*may* well have caused the train to be going slower, due to the physical
reminder that the driver would have received that he should be travelling
slowly.

Dave