Re: British accident track layout

["Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au>]

Geoff Lambert <G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
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> Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >Geoff Lambert wrote:
>
> >>
> >> I still can't fathom how the Down train managed to cross the path of
> >> the Up.
>
> >Notagunzel has largely answered this. Just a couple of further points:
>
> >1. It was not a case of the points being set reverse - it was just a
> >matter of the train running out of anywhere else to go.
>
> Yes, that is clear.  The reason it wasn't clear before was that all
> the reports implied that the train went through the crossover
> immediately beyond signal 109, which it would have done in the normal
> course of events.  The collision occurred at a different place. In the
> group uk.rail there seemd to be a lot of to-ing and fro-ing for a day
> or two, trying to ascertain the exact track layout there.  The diagram
> at http://freespace.virgin.net/g.mayo/sn109.html shows it all.
>
> Geoff Lambert
>
> Thanks Geoff
That pretty well clears it up now,if only the newspapers could catch up.
The poor buggers in the turbo had no where to go.
In adequate fail-safe measures must surely be the final link in the chain
before impact,which sealed there fate.