Re: Big train wreck in England!

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Andrew Price (aprice@mail.dotcom.fr) wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 1999 20:30:31 GMT, "David Ready" <ds_ready@usa.net>
> wrote:

> >26 confirmed dead now, and still more to come. I'll never know why the brits
> >don't have a system like NSW where a train gets derailed if it goes through
> >a red light or has its brakes automatically applied.

> Cost.

> Who, in their privatised network, is going to foot the bill for full
> Automatic Train Protection?

Come on!  The accident was just out of Paddington. The Great Western
started putting in ATP in 1903!

BR started putting AWS on main lines decades ago. In the case of SPAD it's
supposed to apply the emergency brake. Two SPAD accidents in the same
area, both with HSTs. Coincidence or carelessness?

Cheers
David