Re: [NSW]Getting rid of guards

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"Tom C" <tom.clifton@REMOVEvirgin.net> wrote in message
news:3c663584.1439400@news.ntlworld.com...
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:48:11 +1100, Marvin The Martian
> <"choochoo"@(nospam)spin.net.au> wrote:
>
>
> London Underground's Victoria Line has been driven automatically ever
> since it opened in 1967, although someone sits in the cab, monitoring
> and initiating door closure (I think). The Docklands Light Railway is
> automatically driven with no one up front - there's no separate
> driver's cab - but has a staffer doing tickets, who can drive in an
> emergency.
>
Had a ride in the front seat of a DLR tram a few years back.  A sign on the
lid covering the driving controls, (can't remember the wording) something
about vacate seat if requested by driver.  The front windscreen was filthy,
typical for vehicles sent through wash plants, happens here in Sydney with
trains and trams, nobody bothers to clean the ends of the vehicles.

Ted