Re: Locked Points still does not stop a crash!

[krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )]

>> Riggs Creek Loop on the Victorian North East, is a prime example of
>> points that cannot be interfered with (as they always lay to the left,
>> but can be broken by a train approaching from the reverse direction)
>
>A Trailable Loop, yes...
>
>> An indicator at each end tells the Driver that the points are locked in
>> the correct position.
>
>Green & Yellow fishtails, no less...
>
Wrong, Riggs Creek has 2 pos Home arrival signals with an arrow route
indicator. The direction of the arrow can only be seen from a
relatively short distance and on the down the signal is around a blind
curve.

>Are Victorian Drivers taught to check the train order when passing every location?
>One of the interstate systems IIRC does.  Also, on the ARTC IIRC every train reports
>through every siding.  One of the much maligned features of the SAW is that a fresh
>authority is obtained through every Loop/BP, *however* one big benifit is that it
>*should* be more difficult to have a Mt Christie type misread, as the lack of forward
>authority is immediatey obvious.
>
However, at 3 in the morning, after sending and recieving "key main"
through authorities for the past two hours it is relatively easy to
miss a "key loop" or even fail to notice a lack of "next authority" .

Cheers

Krel


VGR website http://www.castlemaine.net.au/~vgr/

If competition is so good how come there is only one Competition Commision?