[SystemSafety] Spanish train crash

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 7/29/13 1:47 PM, Dick Selwood wrote:
> A RENFE spokesman is reported to have said -"He should have started braking 4 km away."

According to the Guardian's John Hooper in the Observer yesterday, that was Gonzalo Ferre, the 
president of adif, the rail network operator. Interesting that he is fingering RENFE's area of 
responsibility (train operations) more than his (track geometry and equipment).

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
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