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

Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Sep 13 10:54:20 2008, in response to Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Sep 13 10:34:53 2008.

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Well, assuming that the Metrolink engineer died (I'm not sure), depending on black box data - do they have cab voice recorders on Metrolink? - we may be able to at least piece together the movement of the train relative to the signal indications displayed.

But if there was a clear line of sight, wouldn't the engineer also have perceived the freight train occupying the interlocking? Anyhow, assuming that the engineer received an approach signal, it would seem that he disregarded it. Perhaps that was his habit going through the interlocking, expecting the next signal to be favorable, and not reducing speed (significantly), but that theory of the collision would still seem to posit that the approach signal rule wasn't followed.

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