Re: Hornsby Derailment in Sun-Herald

["Keith" <duff@atinet.com.au>]

I don't think suburban Sydney trains can run red signals without their
brakes being tripped ?  But I stand to be corrected ...

David Bennetts <davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
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> Yesterday's Sun-Herald carried a story about the recent derailment at
> Hornsby, quoting "Senior State rail sources" had advised that the driver
> concerned had admitted running two red signals before the train derailed.
> The driver was named in the article, along with the suburb where he lived.
> A photograph of the driver, who is on "stress leave", on the other side of
a
> screen door at his residence, accompanied the article.  The train which
left
> Wynyard at 5.44 came off the line at 6.11 pm (I find this hard to believe,
> by my reckoning the 5.44 ex Wynyard should have only reached Gordon at
that
> time).  The preliminary accident report shows the train travelling at 34.8
> km/h at the point of derailment.   The train driver, described in the
> headline as a rookie, had only been on the job for five weeks, and it was
> the first time he had been in charge of a train on the northern line.
>
>
> Questions:
>
> Why did the State Rail Sources comment prematurely on an accident which is
> still under investigation?
> Why did the Sun Herald name the driver and his suburb of residence, and
> publish a photo which he obviously didn't want taken?
>
> Regards
>
> David Bennetts
> Canberra
>
>