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Re: Indian Pacific Crash
- Subject: Re: Indian Pacific Crash
- From: telljb@OZozemail.com.au (< Tell >)
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:18:06 GMT
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- Newsgroups: aus.rail
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"Notagunzel" <notagunzel@bigfoot.com> wrote and I quote
selectively:
>
> Doesn't seem very safe, does it? ARTC must be thinking along similar
> lines, as Westinghouse has got a contract for the resignalling of all the
> loops, AFAIK the latest edition of Track & Signal has details. However, at
> this point, I'm only aware of Tent Hill, the first loop out of Port Augusta
> having being completed. (They may have done more now, but I haven't heard
> anything.)
That's good news.
Ever since the demise of Australian National which as
some folks would be aware, were working on their
AUSTRAC Train Control system which fell into a hole for
a host of reasons, the train working situation on the
TAR has had a few worrying aspects.
I have no wish too sound like a dooms-dayer, but after
almost 39 years in the Bush, I have a healthy respect
for the possible implications of a serious high speed
rail collision, involving a passenger train some
thousand Km's from a major population centre.
The response time with specialised help and equipment
would prove too long for many innocents.
----Terry Burton