Re: [Syd] Why do trains sound horn when leaving platform?

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

"Mark Bau"
| Alex Pout
| > <martin_o@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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| >> Why do trains sound horn when leaving platform?


| Its a hangover from when suburban trains had manually operated doors and
| guards. (oops, sorry, I forgot archaic Sydney still has guards)

No it's not.

| In reality
| there is no good reason to sound the whistle on a train equipped with
power
| doors prior to moving unless a worker is seen near the tracks.

Apart from warning the morons that the train is about to move.


| Trams usually don't make a sound when they move off and there are lots
more
| people/vehicles in close proximity to a tram compared to a train. Also
| pilots (shunters) don't whistle prior to every move.

They are supposed to though and will when the Driver thinks it is needed.


| Having worked on Australian and US railways I am a firm believer in bells,
| they get your attention but are not intrusive like a whistle/horn is. True
| they can't be heard at the back of a train but then neither can a suburban
| whistle.

I dispute that.