Re: Alamein line problem?

[david <david@gwmail.nmit.vic.edu.au>]

Please correct me since I will be wrong, but my impressions of these emergency
panels are
not favouirable.

The panel seem to offer limited funcionality and cannot run the area safely for
any period ( unlike the signal boxes they replaced) - often in closets or dark
places. They seem crippled from the start in route setting - and I believe
never intended to be used for any length of time. I saw the Clifton Hill one
and it seems if there was a failure it probally would affect it as well.

They seem to be nintendo things, put in to be there but not to be used. Again I
hope I'm wrong.

Regards,
David Head

Samuel Eades wrote:

> Michael Wierzbinski <wizzer1865@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> 3a095be5$0$19405$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3a095be5$0$19405$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> > Signalling problem between Ashburton and Alamein, staff at Ashburton not
> > qualified in panel thus creating mayhem for drivers and train control.
>
> This is a big problem throughout Connex (an perhaps Bayside too) at the
> moment. At stations where there are emergency signal panels, a lot of staff
> members haven't been trained in how to operate them, some do not even have
> any safeworking capabilities.
>
> The staff at Preston are meant to know Bell panel, and are paid a higher
> rate, but the reality is that none of them know how...
>
> management at Connex appear to be aware of this, and are starting a massive
> drive to get many more SOs trained in safeworking.
>
> Sam