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beejiuyesterday at 10:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, and just yesterday a passenger train was routed into the path of a freight train due to some points failure. It does make you wonder. https://www.railmagazine.com/news/points-failure-results-in-...


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6LLvveMx2koXfwnyesterday at 10:35 PM

The trains heading for each other was not a direct result of the points failure but a direct result of the manual operation of the points after the failure. Everything was on go-slow so no risk of collision. This was human error.