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Re: Concord West Derailment
- Subject: Re: Concord West Derailment
- From: "Paul Jones" <dj_argon@geocities.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:58:30 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail, misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Organization: RP Internet Services
- References: <78egen$95o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36aaf3ce.0@139.134.5.33> <36AB2F39.74D24015@ozemail.com.au> <78imcq$j21$1@lios.apana.org.au> <36B321F8.706222AD@ozemail.com.au>
Are you sure it was about 287m, not 288m or 286m??
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Paul Jones
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/6776
David Johnson wrote in message <36B321F8.706222AD@ozemail.com.au>...
>C. Dewick wrote:
>
>> In <36AB2F39.74D24015@ozemail.com.au> David Johnson
<trainman@ozemail.com.au> writes:
>> >It was actually a very large tree completely obscuring the top light
until about
>> >50m from the signal. After the accident, the tree was lopped
considerably
>> >giving far better sighting distance of the signal (about 600m). A
Tangara doing
>> >115 km/h can easily stop in 600m.
>>
>> It's not 600 metres. We still can't see the signal protecting the turnout
>> into the up refuge until we pass under the footbridge at the north end of
>> the platforms, so chopping the tree has only added another 100 metres or
so
>> to the sighting distance, meaning it's increased from about 80 metres to
>> about 200 metres.
>
>I had a look yesterday. You can now see the top light approx 287 metres
before the
>turnout. Before the tree was lopped, the sighting distance was some 92
metres from the
>turnout.
>
>--
>David Johnson
>CityRail Guard
>trainman@ozemail.com.au
>http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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