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Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train

Posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Sep 13 00:19:07 2008, in response to **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train, posted by Easy on Fri Sep 12 20:01:24 2008.

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If you go and look at the wreck site here, its pretty clear what happened. The wreck happened on a portion of single track territory needed to go through some tunnels. It's about 1/4 mile past the end of double track territory on a sharp curve. The Metrolink had just entered the single track territory. In this situation the most likely cause is that the Metrolink engineer was expecting a clear signal at the entrance to the single track line, however an opposing freight train had been given the line instead. Basically the dispatcher fucked up and caused the Metrolink to be hit by a Stop signal, however this was such an out of the ordinary occurrence the Metrolink Engineer just saw what he was accustomed to seeing and blew through the interlocking as if it was clear.

Even if this line had ATS it would not have changed anything because both Approach Diverging and Diverging Clear would have set off the ATS alerter.

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