Re: [NSW]Fault Finding

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

"Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
news:9fdop8$i53$1@tomahawk.unsw.edu.au...
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| !!! handbrakes not released!!! aren't guards meant to check that as well
as
| drivers??

It's the guards job.


| out of curiosity, what happens when they're applied and the train
"attempts"
| to go into service? I'm sure just like a motor car, it'll move but with
| great difficulty, but what are some of the "obvious" signs that the
| handbrake's applied? (i.e. smell, sound???)

If it's only a ratchet handbrake you may not notice at all until someone
says there's smoke coming out. They're supposed to light up the wheelslip
light but don't always do so.