Re: Bayside Trains driver stood down.

["Tony Gatt" <baulko@tig.com.au>]

David McLoughlin <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Michael wrote:
>
> >
> > Just heard on 3AW that a Bayside Trains driver was stood down today, for
> > driving his train through a Dandenong level crossing while the gates
were
> > still up.
>
> Given that the automatic trip levers would have stopped a train driving
> through a red signal which should have been showing if the gates were
> up, how could this have happened and why was the driver blamed?

I have seen track circuits fail and NOT detect a train before.

Also most Melbourne crossings have green signals before them.

Whatever happened to the "Healthy State Indicators" they started putting on
Level Crossings years back?? Another project that never got off the ground??

Tony.