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December 23

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	Feature: Glenbrook Inquiry Report
		The drivers of both of the trains are cleared of blame.
		The report states "It is the responsibility of the employer to ensure that all employees on the rail network are properly trained, supervised and recertified in tasks which have an effect on their safety and the safety of the travelling public".
		From the outset, Glenbrook disaster commissioner Justice Peter McInerney made it clear that he was going to apportion blame for the train disaster which killed seven people and injured 51.
	danger-ahead.railfan.net /features/glenbrook/interim_report.html (680 words)

	Disaster recovery and pastoral care - UCA NSW Synod
		Disaster relief and recovery organisations need to be able to rely on trained, identified personnel who are already experienced at working in a team.
		Disaster “recovery” is the long-term process of the community adapting and growing beyond the ravages of the disaster.
		Disaster Relief and Recovery funds are intended to supplement, not replace, the funds available from insurance, government grants and public appeals.
	nsw.uca.org.au /disaster-response/faqs.htm (1138 words)

	1990, May 6, Cowan - emergencyNSW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A coronial inquiry found that a railway signal fault was caused by sand dumped on the rail by the driver of 3801 as the train went into a violent wheel-spin as it approached the Boronia tunnel.
		About one train length outside the tunnel, the driver opened the valve to full throttle and the steam train pulled to a complete stop and more sand was applied to the rails.
		The force of the impact destroyed the last utting of the historic train, where 4 fatalities utting, and demolished the front carriage of the inter-urban, killing the driver and a companion in the cabin.
	www.emergency.nsw.gov.au /content.php/281.html (371 words)

	2003, January 31, Waterfall - emergencyNSW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Passing a 50 kmh speed sign (the train was estimated at doing between 90 and 100 kmh), it came out of the bend and left the tracks, crossing the city bound lane.
		There was another hold-up in the rescue efforts when emergency services responding to the train disaster from the south side of the crash claim they were delayed by up to 10 minutes because they could not open a padlocked gate.
		The dead victims of the train crash included the male driver, 53 from Unanderra; 49-year-old male from Sans Souci; 40-year-old of Granville; 48-year-old male of Padstow Heights; 62-year-old male of Figtree; 35 year-old female of Mortdale and a 38-year-old male from Cronulla.
	www.emergency.nsw.gov.au /content.php?folderid=89 (646 words)

	Nine dead in commuter train crash - theage.com.au
		Students on their way to enrol at Wollongong University are believed to have been among the 80 passengers on board the south-bound train when it derailed four kilometres south of Waterfall station about 7.30am.
		The derailment happened in a cutting with high embankments on either side of the train, and there was reportedly no place nearby for rescue helicopters to land.
		The train was a peak-hour service on the Illawarra line that left Central station for Port Kembla at 6.24am.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/31/1043804506677.html (873 words)

	Report into Australian rail disaster shows government decisions undermined safety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The judicial inquiry's interim report had already found that the disaster was caused by the lack of a visual monitoring system covering the track and inadequate communications systems to follow movements.
		These factors meant that rail personnel at Glenbrook and the main signal box at Penrith were unaware that the Indian Pacific had been stopped by another faulty red signal ahead of the suburban train.
		Train driver Charles Jarvis testified that drivers had been “forced to operate trains with non-functioning radios” and had “pressure brought to bear on them to take out trains with non-functioning brakes”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jun2001/glen-j01.shtml (1237 words)

	Disaster recovery and pastoral care - UCA NSW Synod
		A bus or train crash, factory or hospital fire involving dozens of death, injuries or evacuations, requiring extra “emergency” measures for coping and recovery, is.
		Disaster means an emergency of extraordinary magnitude requiring a maximum community response to alleviate as far as possible all its effects.
		The Uniting Church plays a role under the State’s Disaster Recovery Plan as a supporting organisation — which means that it assists through clearly-established processes and channels at the time of a disaster.
	nsw.uca.org.au /disaster-response/whatisadisaster.htm (536 words)

	Train Accidents Australia
		Australia, Sydney, Granville: a commuter train derailed and crashed into the pillars of a bridge bringing it down on top of the train; 83 people died, more than 200 were injured.
		Australia, NSW, Glenbrook: a freight train collided with the rear of a stalled passenger train; 1 person died, 10 were injured.
		Australia, Victoria, Wodonga: a train collided with their bus on a level crossing; 25 people (most of them military personnel) died.
	www.emergency-management.net /train_acc_australia.htm (470 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Inquiry into Sydney train tragedy
		The train wreckage is expected to be taken to a rail yard in Sydney on Saturday where the crash site will be recreated for forensic inspection.
		Australia's worst rail disaster occurred at Granville the west of Sydney in January 1977 when 83 people were killed when a packed peak-hour train derailed and crashed into a concrete bridge.
		In 1999, seven people were killed and 51 injured when a commuter train slammed into the back of another passenger train at Glenbrook, 55km (34 miles) west of Sydney.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2712897.stm (392 words)

	Evidence at Australian rail disaster inquiry reveals chaotic safety system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sinnett testified that he had never been trained in the use of the train's emergency brake, commonly known as the dead-man's handle, or informed what distance it took to stop a train in an emergency.
		This line of questioning downplays the circumstances that combined to produce the disaster at Glenbrook and serves to deflect from an examination of the underlying causes.
		The responsibility for the tragic crash at Glenbrook rests not with the drivers and signalmen but with successive state governments, which have slashed spending and jobs in the State Rail system over the past two decades resulting in signaling and safety systems that are antiquated and poorly maintained.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/glen-m04.shtml (1168 words)

	Nine confirmed dead in commuter train disaster - smh.com.au
		rescue workers at the scene of the train crash south of Waterfall.
		The train was travelling from Sydney to Port Kembla when it derailed south of Waterfall.
		Three staff members from the University of Wollongong were among the 80 passengers on board the south-bound train when it derailed four kilometres south of Waterfall station about 7.30am.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/31/1043804507090.html (918 words)

	Train Protection Warning System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS) has been deployed across the entire UK railway network.
		[1] Its purpose is to safely stop trains that pass signals at danger so as to avoid a collision.
		An aerial on the train picks up the frequency from the loops if they are energised, and applies the brakes if required, for instance, if it takes less than 1 second (approximate value) to travel over the OSS loops, or if the TSS loops are energised.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Train_Protection_Warning_System (998 words)

	Death toll now officially 7 in Glenbrook train crash (03/12/99)
		The accident occurred at about 08:25 on Thursday Decmber 2 when a commuter train collided with the rear of the Indian Pacific tourist train at Glenbrook at the foot of the Blue Mountains.
		It is believed that the Indian Pacific train had halted at a red signal and was proceeding, according to the rules at low speed.
		Just moments before the impact, passengers on the express had listened to an announcement over the trains PA system that their train would be delayed due to a signal failure.
	danger-ahead.railfan.net /reports/rep99/glenbrook19991202_1203_01.html (526 words)

	Train radios blamed - smh.com.au
		Calls for the immediate implementation of recommendations from the Glenbrook train disaster inquiry have been renewed as the clean-up continues after Friday's train collision near Newcastle.
		Seven passengers were taken to hospital, including one with suspected spinal injuries, after the passenger train they were in hit a derailed freight train at Hexham shortly before 6.30am.
		There were reports that the freight train driver had been unable to warn the passenger train driver.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/13/1026185124854.html (242 words)

	PM - McInerny to head new rail investigation
		DAVID LEWIS: I spoke to some of the survivors, and asked what had happened, and they said that as far as they were concerned, the train was travelling too fast through the cutting and it took the bend and tipped over.
		There is a fl box in the front of the train which appears to be not damaged.
		ANNIE WHITE: Just a few weeks ago, at a memorial service for the Granville train disaster of 1977, State Opposition Leader John Brogden alleged the State Goverment was dragging its heels on rail safety improvements, and he promised reforms if elected.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s774113.htm (1159 words)

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		The commuter train rounded a blind corner outside Sydney during the morning rush and slammed into the back of the transcontinental Indian Pacific, carrying 159 passengers, many of them elderly tourists, state rail authorities said.
		Rail authorities said the two-level commuter train may have been traveling at up to 80 kph (50 mph) when it crashed near Glenbrook, a small town at the base of the Blue Mountains, 56 kilometers (35 miles) west of Sydney.
		Australia's worst rail disaster was on Jan. 18, 1977, when a crowded commuter train derailed and struck the supporting pillars of a road bridge, which collapsed.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=15165 (3545 words)

	PM
		Todays Sydney rail disaster has taken the lives of some, left others in hospital, and left big question marks over the safety of travelling by train in New South Wales.
		The latest crash hit as the New South Wales Rail system was still trying to clean up its act after the 1999 Glenbrook train disaster, with an inquiry into that crash identifing poor management procedures and inadequate staff training as key failures.
		Some people may be psychologically scarred or traumatised by what they've seen and been through in the Waterfall derailment disaster, but experts stress that at this stage after a disaster, all reactions are normal.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/indexes/2003/pm_archive_2003_Friday31January2003.htm (464 words)

	Glenbrook Train Disaster – The way I saw it. - The Green Room - Forums - www.atomicmpc.com.au
		After approximately 7 hours of passing train pieces along a line, and the odd visit inside the carriage, it was time to remove the bodies.
		there has been an "incedent" at glenbrook and all the trains are stopped for the day.
		it turns out that one was on the train, the others weren't, they had all been late to the station for various reasons.
	www.atomicmpc.com.au /forums.asp?s=1&c=1&t=48025 (2359 words)

	Passenger Trains
		USA, Iowa, Corning: an Amtrak 'California Zephyr' train, enroute from Chicago to California with 195 passengers and 15 crew members derailed on a straightaaway between the communities of Brooks and Nodaway, about 70 miles southwest of Des Moines, IA. Nine cars were involved in the accident that occurred at 11.40 p.m.
		Spain, Albacete province, near Chinchilla: A high-speed Talgo passenger train en route from Madrid to Cartagena with 86 passengers aboard collided head-on with a 28-container freight train around 9:40pm; causing some of the coaches to burst into flames; at least 19 people (14 passengers and 5 railroad employees) died, and 40 were injured.
		After hitting a boulder washed onto the tracks by recent heavy rainfall, the train's engine and three cars fell from a 65 foot (20 meter) high bridge and another seven cars derailed; at least 15 people died and 50 others were injured.
	www.disaster-management.net /pass_train.htm (4685 words)

	THE ANDERSON'S FIRE TRAIL
		You could, of course, park at Glenbrook and ride both the Oaks and the Anderson's to get to Wentworth Falls.
		Train times from Woodford on weekends runs on half past the hour.
		If disaster strikes and the creek is too deep or fast to cross (please do check before riding straight into a fast-flowing creek - you WILL end up floating down the Nepean River ONE DAY if you don't!), then backtrack and ride up the other trail.
	www.geocities.com /volcan271/old_site/andos.html (1670 words)

	Eight Die in NSW Train Crash [Archive] - FreeWebspace.net Community
		Police and rescue crews were forced to cut their way into the train to reach the trapped and injured.
		But he said emergency services had learned valuable lessons from the Glenbrook train disaster in the Blue Mountains in 1999, when seven died.
		Passenger Arnouska Zehalko, 21, who called her parents from the train wreck shortly after the derailment, said there were bodies everywhere.
	www.freewebspace.net /forums/archive/index.php/t-39651.html (551 words)

	www.ncngrrmuseum.org - Engines of the NCNGRR - Details
		As the engines struggled to pull the heavy train around this curve, the horses in the first car apparently shifted towards the side of the car next the inside rail.
		Over went the first, followed by the two locomotives and the next two freight cars, one of which was a boxcar containing the cages of lions and a flatcar loaded with cage wagons filled with bears.
		The tracks gave way as the train passed through the flooded area; the tender derailed and the engine and two coaches overturned.
	www.ncngrrmuseum.org /pb/wp_c65d458f.html (2375 words)

	Train drivers put brakes on tests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The SRA has had pre-shift alcohol testing in place for CityRail and other train drivers since the 1980s, but plans to extend this to mid-shift random ‘‘impairment testing’ across the network.
		The new testing proposals were foreshadowed by the Minister for Transport, Carl Scully, as part of new legislation to tighten up on safety standards in the public transport system.
		The legislation was developed in response to the McInerney Report into the Glenbrook train disaster in 1999.
	www.humanresourcesmagazine.com.au /articles/a5/0c01ada5.asp (512 words)

	AFTER 12 YEARS OF EXCUSES, TRAIN SAFETY STILL THE LAST PRIORITY UNDER LABOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With one-in-five Waterfall recommendations not implemented nearly four years after the train disaster, and implementation dates pushed back for 17 of them, it is clear the Iemma-Costa Government is not taking train safety seriously, Shadow Transport Minister Barry O’Farrell said today.
		Vital radio communications recommendations won’t be in place until 2010, eleven years after the Glenbrook disaster and seven years after Waterfall.
		“Seven years after the Glenbrook accident rail users are still waiting for uniform train communications to be introduced across the NSW rail system,” he said.
	www.nsw.liberal.org.au /media/view.cfm?media_id=3063 (383 words)

	St Aubin On30 Scale Trains! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This whimsical, ready-to-run train set comes complete with a 2-6-0 steam locomotive with operating headlight and coal tender, box car, flat car, gondola, bobber caboose, 56" x 38" oval of nickel silver E-Z Track®, magnetically operated knuckle couplers on all cars, under-track magnet, power pack, and helpful DVD video with assembly instructions.
		This ready-to-run train set features a 2-6-0 steam locomotive with operating headlight and coal tender, three lighted passenger cars, 56" x 38" oval of nickel silver E-Z Track®, magnetically operated knuckle couplers on all cars, under-track magnet, power pack, and helpful DVD video with assembly instructions.
		This ready-to-run train set features a 2-6-0 steam locomotive with operating headlight and coal tender, three lighted passenger cars, 56" x 38" oval of nickel silver E-Z Track®, magnetically operated knuckle couplers on all cars, power pack, and helpful DVD video with assembly instructions.
	www.lgbpola.com /bachmann_on30_scale_o_scale_runs.htm (1443 words)

	Dealing with Bob Carr - page 3 (CG)
		My email is not about the Waterfall train disaster at all - it is about the comments made by Mr Peter McInerney.
		search on "Glenbrook train" about 800 "results" are found, and you can easily piece together any bits of the story you don't already know.
		Premier Bob Carr, the person ultimately responsible for the running of NSW trains, appointed retired judge Peter McInerney as an independent commissioner with full judicial powers to look into what had gone wrong and to make recommendations about how to avoid such accidents in the future.
	www.customguides.com.au /003/3097.htm (639 words)

	Carrmediawatch3.03
		The premier is held in reserve for meat pies, funding decisions and disasters like the Waterfall derailment in which 7 people were killed.
		So last week, to try to calm the media down, the head of the NSW Department of Transport, showed journalists confidential inquiry documents — and claimed he was doing this with the knowledge of the inquiry.
		This caper went to heart of the Carr government’s handling of both the train disaster and the press.
	www.gaiaguys.net /Carrmediawatch3.03.htm (1520 words)

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