Re: Hornsby Derailment in Sun-Herald

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Rod Gayford wrote in message <3793A2F5.6BA35675@smatchat.net.au>...
>I may stand corrected but are there any trips north of Hornsby? I
understood trips
>were only used in the original limits of metro electrification. Remember
the
>prototype K set that ran into the back of the freight at Berowra killing
the driver
>some years ago. It also ran a red light.

Don't they go all the way to Cowan? Also from Fassifern north (although I
stand to be corrected on this - I *think* I have seen them in the Newcastle
area.

DaveP
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>Cheers
>Rod Gayford
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>Eben Levy wrote:
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>> Paul Hogan wrote:
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>> > Keith wrote in message <379312b7.0@pink.one.net.au>...
>> > >I don't think suburban Sydney trains can run red signals without their
>> > >brakes being tripped ?  But I stand to be corrected ...
>> > >
>> > Perhaps a better question to ask is why the signal controlling exit
from the
>> > Down loop doesn't actually have a trip?
>> > But I didn't mean to say that...... :-)  The enquiry will reveal all.
(if
>> > the findings are made public)
>>
>> Well, if we want to get techinical about it, no signals have trips, they
only
>> have "train stops"the trip is the little arm on the bogie. No the
question
>> should be, "why is there access to a crossing loop with an unprotected
signal at
>> the end?"
>>
>> I know i am getting picky :-}
>>
>> But for sure we can blame RAC for not following the safety standards.
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