"John" <MelbourneJohn@RemoveThis.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3e43ae3e$1@news.comindico.com.au...
> "LB" wrote:
> >
> > John Kerley wrote:
> > >
> > > Also lucky that the signaller at Broadmeadows set the road for the up
> > > trip as soon as the train arrived on the down. If not the runaway
would
> > > be "wrong line" with a certain head on collision with the following
> > > train, although probably there would have been time to stop it and
> > > detrain passengers.
> >
> > Actually I wonder if the points just remain set for up trains most of
> > the time - almost all trains at Broady use the main platform (on the
> > down side), so down trains trail the points and then all up trains
> > imediately switch to the up on departure.
> >
> > Someone may know better.
>
> The point are set and reset for each move; they are not trailed. A few
> years back there was an incident when an up train left Broady and the
points
> hadn't been set for the up line, so the train headed up the down line. I
> don't recall if it stopped before hitting the next down waiting to enter
the
> station, but I'm guessing that it probably led to the signallers always
> setting the crossover for the up move as soon as the down arrived.
>
> >
This was when Broady had 2 position signalling, a train standing at Plat 2
'heard' the signal come off and so departed, he headed off on the down line
straight into the path of the next spark. The signal the driver heard was
the signal from plat 1 for an up pass. The driver concerned didn't even
realise he was on the down line as he had certain personal issues at the
time, he is no longer employed on the railways.
Not long after this incident a fixed train stop was placed on the down line
facing up trains just past the points, this lasted until signal post 4 was
replaced by a 3 position signal with a train stop, of course, if the train
has no trips lowered this isn't going to have any effect 
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