rail incidents in India

[Savitha]

1.Few months ago, Dhamara Ghat train accident in India killed 36 people. This accident happened as group of people tried to cross the tracks in a railway station hit by high speed train on the track.
2. The ac coach of Bangalore City-Hazur Sahib Nanded express train caught fire & 26 people died. The cause of fire is due to fire in electric circuit of ac coach.

My query :

1. how the people in signalling industry has to see these incidents. or how these incidents will affect the railway signalling.
2. If the same incidents have happened in UK, what will be the reactions of government & signalling industry.

Regards,
savitha

[Peter]

1.Few months ago, Dhamara Ghat train accident in India killed 36 people. This accident happened as group of people tried to cross the tracks in a railway station hit by high speed train on the track.
2. The ac coach of Bangalore City-Hazur Sahib Nanded express train caught fire & 26 people died. The cause of fire is due to fire in electric circuit of ac coach.

My query :

1. how the people in signalling industry has to see these incidents. or how these incidents will affect the railway signalling.
2. If the same incidents have happened in UK, what will be the reactions of government & signalling industry.

Regards,
savitha

I think that the work of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch in the UK is all about drawing out the learning points and making the information available to a wider audience than those "directly" involved.

I am not sure from the two incidents described how the signalling industry would Help prevent those. I am however interested that this has come up following the recent IRSE seminar about the lessons being learned from the Clapham accident because although that was clearly had a signalling cause, one of the things that I was largely unaware of was that the severity of the accident was heightened because of the poor response of the rolling stock and its lack of crash worthiness. The work done as a result of this has given us the very robust rolling stock we have today.