Re: Email to John Laws regarding comments this morning

[facetious@my-deja.com]

In article <7WG54.2963$Dh3.59965@ozemail.com.au>,
  "Garry Hoddinett" <hoddos@netspace.net.au> wrote:

> More seriously though, Mr Laws comments are misplaced but non the less
> it
> was it was bloody incompetence on the part of CityRail.

It wasn't all their fault.  The signalbox is Rail Access (Network
Control).  The signaller made a mistake.  She pressed the wrong button.
 It isn't a word processor.  You can't just press backspace and hope
noone noticed.  How many keys do you press on your computer before you
make a mistake and have to backspace?

> I suspected
> something was wrong when the train started going up the Seven Hills
> flyover - this should surely have been an extremely rare movement for
> an
> Interurban - why didn't the driver query the signal?  It then should
> have
> been further obvious to an experienced Interurban driver that
> something must
> be wrong if the signal also indicates he is to proceed up the Richmond
> branch - again why didn't he query it?

How do you know he didn't query the signal?  Were you actually in the
drivers cabin, or were you scanning all the radio frequencies?  I hear
the driver did query the signal and was told to keep coming.  As the
driver had probably never been to Blacktown since the resignalling, he
didn't know where the tracks went, or what the signaller could do.  I
suppose the driver could have unfolded the map (which is 1130mm X
890mm), but then he wouldn't have been able to see out the window.


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