Re: [VIC] Dandenong Line Yesterday

["Samuel Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au>]

Andy B <andb@pacific.net.au> wrote in message
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> Samuel Eades <seades@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> > Police are DEFIANTLY not allowed to regulate rail traffic. That has to
be
> > done by an employee (e.g.. a flagman, signaller) with the appropriate
> > Safeworking qualifications, obeying the correct regulations.
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> It struck me as quite odd too, a police officer telling a train driver
when
> to go and when not to go.
>
> I guess however, it was because
>
> a)  Some cars drove through the level crossing against the police
directions
>
> and
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> b) the large number of school children crossing the pedestrian crossing.
>
> When you look at it from a safety issue angle, it makes a tad sense,
> regardless of whether the police shouldn't have been doing it.

True, I'm just surprised that the train drivers were obeying them!

Sam