Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

["Greg " <gregg@ishrug.co.nz>]

"Don Allitt" <nahgfa@zeta.org.au> wrote in message
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> Correct,you or at least i drive my car or Hopkinsons bus so i can stop if
an emergency
> appears. The bus takes longer to stop at the same speed i know so you
drive to suit wet
> roads dry roads doesnt matter you drive to suit and i would hope that
train drivers drive
> the same way.Now if they say they drive to a timetable well maybe DOT
should be involved.
> Don.
>
thats laughable ..... a train driver drives to the stated speed of the
signals ..... often he cannot see clearly his entire stopping distance ..
try driving an intercity express through heavy fog and smoke from burning
peat fires .... your visibility out the cab window is zero!