[SystemSafety] The Carmont/Stonehaven rail accident

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2020-08-13 20:17 , Brent Kimberley wrote:
> Using asset Management records,  civil & geological know-how, hydro-logical / precipitation
> telemetry, and roadway/railway state estimator(s),  one could develop estimate track risk factors
> which roll-up into a roadway/railway forecast system for use by railway engineers ...

Well, sure. On the other hand, you could go through the *entire list* of railway accidents in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_in_the_United_Kingdom

and, until yesterday, come up with two (in 190 years) that had weather-related causes, namely on
1977-07-02 and 1986-06-15.

They both had to do with tracks deforming under heat.

PBL

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





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