Re: Signaller causes SPAD

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

antstig@my-deja.com wrote:

> There have been cases of a stick being thrown back in a driver's face
> and the driver then hitting hit.
>
> Then comes the scary bit. The Signaller instructs the driver to proceed
> over points even though they have not being scotched and clipped (we
> are not talking about remote securing points here). Even scarier is
> that many drivers obey this instruction.
>
> 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.

Many drivers don't bother or forget asking if the points have been tested and
clipped/locked/detected when pilot staff working is introduced.

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David Johnson
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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