Re: Signaller causes SPAD

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

<antstig@my-deja.com> wrote in message 8qfi7l$k6t$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8qfi7l$k6t$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> On LUL the driver has a legal duty to disobey any illegal or unsafe
> instruction.

Same here, though Drivers are often harrassed for doing so.

 If a driver obeys an unsafe/illegal instruction and an
> incident happens he is held to blame along with the Line Controller.
> (This was hammered into us at the Railway Training College although I
> wonder if that is now the case). Needless to say quite often the
> relevant tapes go mysteriously missing. They are always able to find
> the tapes if it is the driver's fault alone!

Again, same here.


> Was CityRail reported to the railway authorities for this outrageous
> breach of safety rules?

I doubt it.

> Are drivers ignoring the amendment as instructed by the unions or do
> you have wimpish/lazy drivers like we do - most of which are fairly
> recent recruits?

I don't think the amendment ever finally made it through. If I wasn't a lazy
Driver, I'd get the manual out and have a look.