Wouldn't there be a software warning for when two trains are bound to collide?
Now that more details have emerged their rail system is total shit and switching and signaling in that section was all done manually. Apparently the station manager told the passenger train to ignore the red signal (presumably because he thought it was wrong).
In the United States, the last head-on collision happened in 2008 (also with a freight train and passenger train) not because of bad signaling--the signals worked fine, problem was the freight train engineer was texting someone and like a distracted Karen blew straight through the stop signal.
Anyway, other stuff:
- Video here at this Greek site but I can't figure out how to archive the video due to its embedded/blob-type nature:
https://www.ertnews.gr/eidiseis/ell...igmi-tis-sygkrousis-ton-dyo-trenon-sta-tempi/
- It looks like the numbers are now at 57+ dead and another 50 or so missing, likely will be 100+ when this is all sorted out.
- Their signals
did work in the past but had fallen into disrepair and were on manual mode. Remember this when the "European train superiority" discussion comes up.
- Greek rail now on strike
- Thousands of people protesting in streets of major cities, probably not just this specifically but mounting civil unrest like
a spyware/wiretapping scandal or the ongoing energy crisis. In a stable government where people are generally content this is not a big issue but the way things are going it's only a matter of time before the public completely loses it and all hell breaks loose.
