Re: Train Accident in Blue Mountains

["Bernard Smith" <epping.smiths@gatewaynet.bigpond.com>]

I don't know about the signal spacing in the Blue Mountains, but it is
possible to run trains at 2-3 minute spacing in the metro area.

Given that the Lithgow train is all stations and the IP an express, the gap
should be opening not closing as they progress through the mountains.

Rob McDonald wrote in message
<3.0.16.19991220105932.2c57ad38@kilo.uws.edu.au>...
>This morning the same commuter train service involved in the Glenbrook
>disaster was yet again running close behind the yet again late-running
>Indian Pacific. On leaving Hazelbrook it was travelling less than 5 minutes
>behind the IP. Many of us commuters who were on the train that crashed were
>understandably concerned.
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>One of the newspapers which reported the Glenbrook disaster claimed there
>should be a 7-minute interval between trains. I've heard elsewhere that the
>interval should be 9 minutes.
>
>Can anyone in this group inform me whether there is a regulation
>stipulating a time interval between the trains on the Blue Mountains Line?
>Or is there just a regulation stipulating distance?
>
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>Rob McDonald
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