• Train collision with vehicle near Kembla

    From Sylvia Else@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Oct 25 15:46:13 2024
    https://www.atsb.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/RO-2021-012%20Final.pdf

    This is the derailment that occurred in 2021 when someone deliberately
    left a vehicle on the track.

    I was interested in the report to see what issues they might have had
    with the internal emergency door release (IEDR), particularly as regards
    the separation of the wiring between the driver's cab and the carriages
    while the train was still moving.

    However, it turns out that the train had not been retrofitted, even
    though the requirement has been marked as "closed subject to
    implementation of an approved program or plan."

    Quite why a recommendation would be marked closed on such a basis
    escapes me. There is a clear risk that a later change of plan would not
    be captured, and the ability for the regulator to track the lack of the
    IEDR would be lost. I'm not saying this happened here, but the lack of
    an IEDR seventeen years after the recommendation is obviously concerning.

    Sylvia.




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