Re: Bayside Trains driver stood down.

["Pete Kilburn" <peekil@csis.net.au>]

The end result is still the same . no matter what connotation you put on the
signalling, any person who walks in front of a moving train comes out second
best
Pete Kilburn

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote in message
<7mmqe6$f8g$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>...
>: > 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?
>
>Not correct, if the level crossing has stopping/express selection it
>will be protected by a red/red signal, but if the gates have no
>stopping/express selection then the signal will be at proceed, and
>you could go through the signal at 'proceed' and the gates still be up.
>
>In other words a level crossing after a station will have a red/red
>signal (some expections like Mitcham where it is always set for down
>express trains) and a level crossing before a station or the middle of
>no where will have no protection (ie signal at Proceed)
>
>On 3LO they said it was a goods train, the crossings there have signs
>"Do Not enter level crossing until booms are horozontal"
>
>Don't worry all the signalling/points and trains on the Dandenong panel are
>recorded so they can find out what happened (and there was another person
>in the cab of the train)
>
>--
>Chris Gordon
>http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord