ARTC controls the Mountain and interfaces with Sydney Trains between
Unanderra and Dombarton
Bob T
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:12 PM, 'Hunslet'hunslet@...
[TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
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> My guess would be that the Unanderra (exclusive) to Moss Vale line is an
> ARTC administered line, even if the signalling is still done from the
> Wollongong Complex. This aspect, I don’t know. Also, if you have “lost
> the air”, you speak to the first person who will answer the radio!!!
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> All will come out in the ATSB inquiry, so I suggest that we ALL be patient!
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> Hunslet.
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> *From:*TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:TramsDownUnder@
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, 26 April 2017 5:54 PM
> *To:*TramsDownUnder@...
> *Subject:* RE: [TramsDownUnder] Rail staff stop NSW runaway freight train
> | Gold Coast Bulletin OT
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> Why did the train crew have to contact ARTC control instead of Wollongong
> control direct to report the runaway ?
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> Does this incident cast doubts on the efficiency of braking on Chinese
> locomotives ?
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> Noel Reed.
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> *From:*TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:TramsDownUnder@
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, 26 April 2017 4:58 PM
> *To:*TramsDownUnder@...
> *Subject:* RE: [TramsDownUnder] Rail staff stop NSW runaway freight train
> | Gold Coast Bulletin OT
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> From the Australian Transport Safety Bureau on-line summary …
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> *On 22 April 2017 the crew of 8960 alerted ARTC train control to their
> train running away on the approach to Dombarton. ARTC alerted Sydney Trains
> who were able to clear a path for the train through Unanderra towards Inner
> Harbour. The train reached a maximum speed of 118.6 km/h and came to a
> stand on a rising grade at the north fork on approach to Inner Harbour.*
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> *The ATSB has commenced an investigation into this accident, which will be
> undertaken by officers from the NSW Office of Transport Safety
> Investigations, under the provisions of the Transport Safety Investigation
> Act 2003. Investigators have commenced collecting evidence and statements
> from involved parties, which will be analysed and a draft investigation
> report compiled. The draft report will be forwarded to relevant parties for
> comment prior to the completion and release of the final report.*
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> *The investigation is continuing.*
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> All we have to do now is to await the Report when made public in about a
> year’s time.
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> From TV news coverage of the train (at Inner Harbour), the train was
> worked by two QBX class locomotives.
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> Hunslet.
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> *From:*TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:TramsDownUnder@
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, 26 April 2017 12:23 PM
> *To:*TramsDownUnder@...
> *Subject:* Re: [TramsDownUnder] Rail staff stop NSW runaway freight train
> | Gold Coast Bulletin OT
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> The item in my source similarly said that the signalperson at the
> Wollongong Control Centre switched the train to a particular siding at
> Unanderra and stopped all other trains clear. The train was safely stopped
> and then proceeded on its way. ATSB was investigating.
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> The Mountain was always a difficult operating environment. There was a
> place on the up (downhill) that if your speed exceeded a certain figure
> then the best course of action was to bail out.
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> Bob T
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> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:46 AM,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] <
>TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
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> I can't see any recently installed uphill-graded runaway sidings on Google
> maps, although a lot of the line is shaded by trees. Perhaps they're
> getting confused with similar facilities for trucks on the Illawarra
> escaprment roads.
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> There was a spectacular runaway in 1963 where loco 4528 lost 17 wagons on
> a derailment coming down the mountain, then took the remaining 17 wagons on
> a wild ride out of control down to Unanderra where the signalman switched
> it onto a dead end siding (perhaps this is the same one?) where it shed the
> remaining wagons at the station then vaulted a creek before coming to rest
> in the soil. There was later a grade-separation of the level crossing at
> Princes Highway in conjunction with the aborted project to Maldon. A few
> loco crew have been killed on the mountain since the 1960s, from collisions
> and landslide.
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> And yes the 1993 bridge at Woolcott St Lavendar Bay is from Dombarton. One
> of the delights of the old Tin Hare service from Wollongong to Moss Vale
> was that the guard would let you out at the stop at Summit tank to look at
> the spectacular view of the Illawarra coast from the nearby lookout.
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> Tony P
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