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NZTA
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Ensuring the completeness of a train following a train parting or similar event is a safety-critical procedure for protecting against wagons being inadvertently left behind and creating the potential for a high speed collision in track warrant territory. The Commission believes that the circumstances where the procedure for ensuring the completeness of the train was so easily by-passed on this occasion is a safety issue. The Commission recommends that the New Zealand Transport Agency addresses that safety issue.
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