Re: Olympic Loop

["David Proctor" <daproc@bigfoot.com>]

Keith Malcolm <keithm@happy.dca.gov.au> wrote in article
<keithm.173.34A9E8E8@happy.dca.gov.au>...
> In article <883538968.911885@fermi.dialix.com.au>
dab@sydney.dialix.com.au (David Bradshaw) writes:
> >From: dab@sydney.dialix.com.au (David Bradshaw)
> >Subject: Re: Olympic Loop
> >Date: 31 Dec 1997 03:29:29 GMT
> 
> >Adam Joyce (NoSpam_adamj@senet.com.au) wrote:
> >: Alternatively why not have a guard on each platform permanently. Once
doors
> >: on both sides of the train are closed, the guards signal to the driver
that
> >: there is no obstruction and that he/she may depart. No one would
therefore
> >: get dragged along the platform
> 
> >Yeah, have an assistant guard (or guard's assistant if you like) 
> >on Olympic trains, who tells the guard that his side is clear, such that

> >the guard will know when to signal the driver that both sides are clear.
> 
> >David Bradshaw
> > 
> 
> Whats wrong with  the driver watching his side and the guard the other.
They 
> use bell signals for right away any way dont they?, o the driver doesn't
have 
> to be on the same side as the guard

I think the issue is who will give the driver the two bells to pull up if
someone attempts to open the doors on the opposite side to the guard as the
train is starting to move - this is not something that the driver could
watch for.


> David Malcolm 
> 


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David Proctor
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