Re: Signaller causes SPAD

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

<signal_spotter@my-deja.com> wrote in message
8pmgol$sr6$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8pmgol$sr6$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hey I didn't start this driver vs engineer war. Ever since I started
> reading/contributing to this NG, just about every driver has had some
> little dig at me whether it's due to catchpoints in the main line or
> bad sighting on signals that I've had nothing to do with, etc etc etc.
> I don't complain to them about their driving. Maybe I should. Just 2
> days ago I caught the train from the city and our driver misjudged his
> approach into the station, slammed on the brakes and nearly passed the
> signal at stop.

Signaller probably threw it back in his face :-)


> Nearly all of us were thrown around. We were right
> behind the Guards Compartment and when we alighted and I commented to
> my colleagues that the driver almost SPADDED, the guard became quite
> irate. Bet that incident didn't get reported.


A guard getting irate isn't really an incident :-)