Re: [NSW] Female guards are hopeless!!!

[craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick)]

facetious@my-deja.com writes:

>In article <391ea37a$0$31504@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
>  "Jane Campbell" <janecampbell@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> So the female was the cause of the accident?  Wasn't because the
>driver was
>> setting back when he shouldn't have been?

>She was a major contributing factor.  Not because she was female, but
>because she was incompetent.

>4 people made errors.
>2 station staff, one of whom set the wrong wrong

Road I think. 8-)

>The Driver - for setting back at a prohibited location, and not stopping
>the train after not receiving a bell after 5 seconds, and exceeding
>speed limit for propelling.

Setting back at a prohibited location - now that is a bit of a strange
statement because setting back is done all the time at all sorts of
locations for all sorts of reasons - and I will bet that about 80 percent of
the locations are the so-called 'prohibited' ones. And putting the pure
safety point of view aside, setting back anywhere is perfectly safe as long
as both the driver and guard know and trust each other enough.

How do you know what bell signals the driver received? You weren't there.
Neither was I, so I'm not speculating on what transpired bell-signal-wise.

Yes, he exceeded the speed limit for propelling. But part of the reason he
didn't check his speed as much as he should have was because, allegedly, he
had been told that he was going to shunt back onto the main line, not into
the storage road (which has worse track that nearly anywhere else I know
of).

>The Guard - for not being at the correct location during a setting back
>movement.

>If she didn't know the procedures for setting back, she should not have
>allowed the driver to do it.

I'll take you to task here - the guard does not control the operation of the
train in any type of normal situation - that is always the exclusive domain
of the driver unless the driver is incapacited due to accident, injury, etc.

The guard could just have said she wouldn't do it, but she does not have the
right to tell the driver he is not allowed to do it. That's not her call. Of
course, the safety aspect is different, since that's equally everyone's
call.

Regards,

Craig.
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