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Re: GSR will extend the Ghan service to Darwin
- Subject: Re: GSR will extend the Ghan service to Darwin
- From: engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ian Johnston)
- Date: 4 Nov 1999 16:50:51 GMT
- Followup-To: aus.rail,uk.railway
- Newsgroups: aus.rail,uk.railway
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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Dave Proctor (daproc@spambait.umpires.com) wrote:
: Not to mention the inward opening doors (I cannot believe that British Rail
: were still building carriages with outward opening doors in the 1980's!)
Aren't outward-opening doors there for safety reasons? Quicker and easier to
open in a crash or fire, and in the event of structural distortion they at
least have the option of falling off. HSE does not generally look kindly on
inward opening doors on escape routes from buildings: why should trains be
different?
Ian