willygee posted:Any PTC in place over there?
I read a couple different articles after I posted this one. The only details I could find was that the railway was "largely built in the colonial era and has not been upgraded." I take this to mean way side signals only, essentially late 1940's era tech. Sadly a quick google search reveals multiple fatality crashes similar to this one every couple years. One story from roughly 2005 was nearly identical circumstances, just a different location. Freight train is stationary near a passenger station and passenger train runs into it at speed because the driver missed the signal. Repeated loss of life and grievous injuries every 2 to 4 years that can totally be prevented with investment in better tech and training.
According to another source, 6 people were killed just last month when a freight train struck a passenger train.
