Re: Electric Staff in Victoria

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

Mea culpa. It was NEWTOWN - Abermule. (AT least I got the first 5 letters
right!)

Rgds
Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST)
Geoff Lambert <G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
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> David Langley <del@ancc.com.au> wrote:
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> >Geoff Lambert wrote:
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> >> "Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote:
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> >> >Indeed. Remember Newton Abbot.
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> >> >> David.
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> >> Isn't that Abermule?  I thought Newton Abbot was on the double-track
> >> main in Devon?
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> >> Geoff Lambert.
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> >You are so right. No electric staff at Newton Abbot at least on the main
> >line. And wasn't Abermule a classic case of a man made mistake in
> >safeworking.
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> "men"-made.  a concatenation of errors and omissions by train and
> station staff, including the failure alluded to in earlier posts that
> the staff never got back to the instrument to be passed into it.  If
> there were N mistakes in this chain of errors, probably making only
> N-1 would have ensured the collision didn't occur.
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> Newton Abbot, by the way, probably popped into someone's mind because
> of a recent accident there involving single track leads (I think I got
> that right).
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> Geoff Lambert.
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