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Re: British accident track layout

Subject: Re: British accident track layout
From: "WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:30:12 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Optus Internet
References: <37FCC845.AFBE94D@efs.mq.edu.au> <7tjdg3$4tb$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au> <37FDA367.85ACD944@efs.mq.edu.au> <37FFF680.E22B4B13@smartchat.net.au>


Rod Gayford <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au> wrote in message
37FFF680.E22B4B13@smartchat.net.au">news:37FFF680.E22B4B13@smartchat.net.au...
> Yes, lets not blame the drivers at this stage. It looks increasingly like
a
> systems failure. Could the HST driver have just cleared the green because
> the local train had not gone far enough to turn those signals to danger.
We
> could be talking about a couple of seconds in time. I still haven,t seen a
> logical explanation why the points were not set for staright ahead if
SN109
> was at red.

If you look at the map, you will see why - there was no straight ahead that
it could have been set to. Catchpoints would have worked.

DaveP

References:
- British accident track layout
  - From: Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>
- Re: British accident track layout
  - From: G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)
- Re: British accident track layout
  - From: Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>
- Re: British accident track layout
  - From: Rod Gayford <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>

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