Re: Bayside Trains driver stood down.

["LooseLips" <danv@primus.com.au>]

Its all a little unfair really.
What stops trains?
A red signal - no!
BRAKES - and the stopping distance is a fair way!
Just plough through the crossing
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?