Re: Signaller causes SPAD

["Peter Dwyer" <peter.dwyer@qr.com.au>]

<antstig@my-deja.com> wrote in message 8qdv5s$raa$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8qdv5s$raa$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <39c843b0$0$32380$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
>   "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > <antstig@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> 8q7t7t$jlk$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8q7t7t$jlk$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > > I have been a driver for fifteen years and it would seem that
> today's
> > > drivers are a bunch of wimps too scared to challenge an illegal,
> unsafe
> > > instruction.
> >
> > I would say they put some trust in the signaller.
>
> We certainly wouldn't. In any case I was referring to other illegal
> instructions e.g. unauthorised wrong direction movements that some Line
> Controllers have ocasionally done.
>
> Once you start breaking the rules then a accident becomes more and more
> likely as more shotrcuts.
>
> I've heard a rumour that anyone wanting to become a Line Controller is
> asked "Would you break the rules in order to avoid delays to the
> service?"
>
> A "no" answer usually guarantees that the applicant is rejected.


A controller is usually considered to be the ultimate authority for
directing traffic
on a railway line. If they say do it, they want it done.

Of course if something happens, then it's their responsibility too. Part of
the job.

Seeya!