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In the Beresfield rail disaster of 23 October 1997, a coal train passed a red signal and ploughed into the rear of another coal train, causing a collision and derailment that blocked all four tracks. The accident occurred at night at Beresfield, New South Wales, Australia. October 23 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
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The railway lines though Beresfield are straight and level, and visibility of the signals would have been good. The flashing tail light of the stationary coal train may have been hard to see, as such signals are typically less bright than stationary railway signals.
The coal train that went through the red signal had a crew of two, who unusually had been rostered on the same shift for a long period of time. This practice is not desirable since it reduces safety through diversity, wherein one crew member feels alert when the other feels drowsy, and vice versa.
The coal train that went through the red signal was fitted with a simple Vigilance control (VC); unfortunately, this simple kind of VC suffers from the counter-productive effect of mindless repetition. Since this accident, the VCs have been modified to have a degree of randomness of the length of intervals between checks. However, so long as it does not have a positive train stop effect, the Vigilance Control cannot guarantee that the train doing a SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) will be brought to a standstill. A Vigilance control is a device fitted in the driving cab of a railway train to ensure that the driver is alert on the job. ...
A Train Stop is a mechanical or electrical device that stops a train if it attempts to pass a red signal, or if it attempts to pass at an excessive speed. ...
Two-aspect signal at danger In railway terminology, a Signal Passed At Danger or SPAD describes an event where a train has run beyond its allocated signal block, as indicated by a lineside signal showing red. ...
Two-aspect signal at danger In railway terminology, a Signal Passed At Danger or SPAD describes an event where a train has run beyond its allocated signal block, as indicated by a lineside signal showing red. ...
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See Also Automatic train protection is speed and distance supervision, usually intervening (usually deploying emergency brake, as a last measure) when the driver of a train omits to react on optical signals given from the wayside system. ...
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