Re: Re: Guard & Drivers Working Together.

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:54:48 +1000, "Tezza"
<tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:

>"Matthew Geier" <matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
>
>|  I've been on trains in the last year where the guard was up the front,
>| including one 'night safe' train where the locked off the back 2 cars
>| (instead of the front) and stopped short at the 'night safe' marked
>platforms
>| so the open cars would line up with the markings..
>|
>|  Presumably some manager type complained about the breach in 'the rules'
>or
>| something. I haven't seen this happen recently.
>
>I was travelling pass with another Driver recently, who was doing a similar
>thing because of locked off rear cars. Granville box got on to him and told
>him not to.
>

Hehe, sure way to piss a signal box off is to stop short and block his
junction!


David Johnson
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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