At least 36 dead, scores injured as trains collide in Greece(cnn.com)
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At least 36 dead, scores injured as trains collide in Greece
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/europe/greece-train-crash-larissa-intl-hnk/index.html
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Quite tragic and sounds like an entirely avoidable accident. No mention of why the passenger train switched to the freight train track. Is that normal? What systems or protocols failed that lead to this accident? I didn't find any details about this in the article.
From what I gather from Greek news [1], there was no separate freight track. But there is one track per direction under normal conditions. One direction was knocked off by a power failure at the time of the accident, so both directions were running on a single track for that segment. Then, some signaling-relatd failure sent two trains on a head-to-head collision.
[1] https://www.news247.gr/koinonia/sygkroysi-trenon-sta-tempi-p...
[1] https://www.news247.gr/koinonia/sygkroysi-trenon-sta-tempi-p...
Good point. If there is such a thing as a dedicated "freight track" there, then you'd expect caution & queries from the passenger train crew.
It's probably too early to make speculations but sounds like a "Not my Job" kinda problem.
Why is this on HN?