Re: "lost" trains

["nobody" <dweebken@NOSPAM.yahoo.com>]

Okay so sand has insulated 110 ton locos, but were they pulling a train?
3801 is 201 tons and was pulling a train of about 300 tons (i think!). I
find it hard to believe an entire train could be insulated from the signal
by sand- you would expect it to be crushed to an insignificant size or fall
off the rails after the first few cars.
The legal liabilities to state rail would be similar to those that they
faced when the coroner found the wheels to be at fault in the Granville
disaster. State Rail had to keep quiet about its problems because it had not
enough money to fix them.


Brendan


"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Roy the Boy wrote:
>
> > Sand on the rail had absolutely nothing to do with the accident between
3801
> > and an intercity. A 200 tonne loco does NOT  loose contact with the
rails.
> > The findings of the investigation were a white wash. Any admission of
signal
> > problems would have opened the SRA to huge legal liabilities.
>
> You do not know what you are talking about.  Sand has been proven to
insulate
> trains from the track circuits, including 110 tonne locomotives.  Yes,
sand was
> the reason that 3801 was isolated from the track circuits.
>
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>
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