Re: Connex train splitting

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

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"Chris Brownbill" <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au> wrote in message
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| Paul Hambleton wrote:
| >
| > A Connex customer service person who rang me to follow up a complaint I
made
| > about cancelled Alamein trains told me that it was happening because of
| > difficulties splitting trains at Flinders St. He said that if anything
went
| > wrong which made it necessary for someone to climb down onto the tracks,
the
| > split couldn't be done because of the lack of a flat surface to stand
on! It
| > was a health and safety issue. He said that work would be carried out at
| > Flinders St. this weekend to solve this problem.
| >
| > Paul Hambleton
|
| Geez - no flat surface eh?  It wasn't that long ago in parts of this
country that hook couplings were in regular use - and coupling cars required
staff to stand between the buffers of carriages being shunted.  And I can
tell you that a flat surface was the last thing on anyone's mind then.

Along with safety or the fear of getting fined by WorkCover (or it's Vic
equivalent).