Re: Drunk cityrail driver

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Of course, only if you like to believe the worst.
> It is actually normal proceedure for Drivers to be breathalised after a
> safeworking incident.
> As an example, if a signalman returned a signal to stop, and the driver
> passed the signal. The signalman when being made aware of his mistake might
> deny that he had, and the Driver is reported as passing a signal at Danger.
> The Driver will then be breathalised.

As will the signaller in NSW.


>Similarly if someone is hurt getting
> on or off the train, or it is derailed, or involved in any accident.
> Recently when a semi trailer derailed my train, by climbing underneath my N
> Class, I was breathalised, by the Police, as well as being blood tested on
> arrival at Albury base Hospital. So Sir think the best not the worst, We
> carry millions of people all over Australia every day, safely, and even
> Sydney, with all its present day problems, is among the top suburban Rail
> Sytems in the World.
> <thebaron@nospam.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> news:91k65u$ej$2@pc1762.alcatel.com.au...
> > Yesterday i was listening with my new scanner and heard that the police
> > had been called to breathalise the driver of a cityrail train due to
> arrive
> > at platform 18 at central at 10.57am yesterday morning. The train would
> > be held until they arrived. bit of a worry, anyone hear what happened.
> > You'd have to assume the guard reported him and was scared half to death.
>
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