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Re: Push-Pull Trains [was English Railway Accident]

Subject: Re: Push-Pull Trains [was English Railway Accident]
From: Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 17:54:42 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
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Geoff Lillico wrote:
> 
> I think the wording in the submissions to RIC for today's trains came from
> the RTM camp.
> 3801 Limited's recently retired Operations Manager ALWAYS described the
> operation of a loco at each end of the train as Top and Tail and he was
> previously a Locomotive Inspector at Lithgow.

Safeworking rules provide a variety of procedures for "push-pull"
working. To the best of my recollection, they do not mention the term
"top and tail", which is purely a colloquialism.

Eddie

References:
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: "KaMaK" <mckinnon@interact.net.au>
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: "David Bennetts" <davibenn@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: "keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: "chris 'fufas' grace" <chris@transdata.co.nz>
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: "keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: "chris 'fufas' grace" <chris@transdata.co.nz>
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: "keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: Bill Bolton <billbolton@computer.org>
- Re: English Railway Accident
  - From: "keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>
- Re: Push-Pull Trains [was English Railway Accident]
  - From: "Geoff Lillico" <glillic@msn.com.au>
- Re: Push-Pull Trains [was English Railway Accident]
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: Push-Pull Trains [was English Railway Accident]
  - From: "Geoff Lillico" <glillic@msn.com.au>

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