Thread: How to break the boredom on a long train drive

Originally Posted by rangieman

Near kerang on the mildura line to be correct

Incorrect Chris

The accident happened between Kerang and Swan Hill

Swan Hill is the end of the rail line now (Thank Mr Kennett)

http://www.vline.com.au/timetables/t...imetables.html

The rail passenger service to Mildura is reopening in a few months running down thru Ouyen, Donald and then via Ballarat

Presently passengers catch a bus via Ouyen, Donald, StArnaud, Dunolly then train it from Bendigo to Melbourne

Members of our local SES are on the scene as the accident is only approx 70k from home

What was the story with the first video, where the Loco seemed to be just rolling into the point? I assume it must have had some type of failure.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

What was the story with the first video, where the Loco seemed to be just rolling into the point? I assume it must have had some type of failure.

If you look carefully the one with the in cab footage had a turnout signal and was applying brakes at the time, the orange one, well who knows?

Oh yeah, I'd noticed that. It was the loco that you could see that was rolling into the point. The driver obviously knew that he was in trouble when he bailed.

The only info I have so far is that the conductor of the other train is the one bailing.

It looks like the other train just failed to break in time to stop short of the turnout and the loco that has the camera on, is actually releasing his breaks as he approaches the turnout and obviously it unaware the other train is still rolling and is going to fowl the turnout.

It’s strange that there is no sound of the crew at any time but then again, if this camera is part of some sort of safety monitoring device then the sound pickup may be somewhere other than in the cab, especially when you can hear the air release all the time.

The cabs of newer locos are protected against this sort of sound these days.

Originally Posted by 84RR

Incorrect Chris

The accident happened between Kerang and Swan Hill

Swan Hill is the end of the rail line now (Thank Mr Kennett)

http://www.vline.com.au/timetables/t...imetables.html

The rail passenger service to Mildura is reopening in a few months running down thru Ouyen, Donald and then via Ballarat

Presently passengers catch a bus via Ouyen, Donald, StArnaud, Dunolly then train it from Bendigo to Melbourne

Members of our local SES are on the scene as the accident is only approx 70k from home

What ever i did post near Kerang , Anyway its falling on deaf ears in this thread

For those interested, here is the initial finding relating to the Kismet collision.

wouldnt want to be the engineer who failed the **** test...

in the world im in thats an automatic "its your fault, All NFW's are your problem"