[SystemSafety] The Carmont/Stonehaven rail accident

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2020-08-13 22:03 , Dewi Daniels wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> There was also the fatal accident at Llandeilo on 1987-10-19 where a train fell into the River Towy
> after a bridge was partially washed away by floods.
I just read the Wikipedia page on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glanrhyd_Bridge_collapse

It occurs to me that many of these accidents would not necessarily have happened today, simply
because of the communications options. The 1999 Glenbrook accident in NSW was another
https://rvs-bi.de/publications/Papers/Ladkin-Glenbrook.pdf

At Glanrhyd, the partially-collapsed bridge had already been noted by a local farmer. Nowadays he
would have pulled his mobile out and contacted the police. On the other hand, there is a chain of
further communications to reach the train driver and tell him to stop.

The astonishing thing about Carmont is everything happened more or less at once.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
Styelfy Bleibgsnd
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs-bi.de





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