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Subject: Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:33:07 +1100
Newsgroups: aus.rail
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Reply-To: trainman@ozemail.com.au

Richard wrote:

> Valid point...it was along this train of thought that I asked for known stopping distances for selected speeds. It had
> occurred to myself as well that maybe the IC wasnt stopping as quickly as the driver might have liked.
> As youallude , this will come out in the inquiry.

I'm afraid this will not help much in this case, but I recall that a V set in emergency from 110 km/h will pull up in
about 900 metres, approximately twice that of a tangara.

--
David Johnson
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/

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