Visibility
The track was curved to the left, the train was using the lefthand track, and the driver was sitting on the left side of the front car of the train. The track was in a narrow rock cutting. These four factors contributed to less than average visibility.
If the curve had been a right hand curve, on a wide embankment, then visibility would have been better than average.
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