>Your question seems to suggest that there is something fundamentally wrong
>with the Ordinary Staff system. IMHO, OS is an ideal system for lines with
>little traffic.
Thanks John. You may not have any formal safeworking qualifications but I
reckon you would probably pass the exam anyway.
Your point that OS is a good system for lightly trafficked lines is quite
valid and most of the lines listed seem to fall into that category (Paget -
Marian which runs within sight of my house is a good example.) My
experience of OS (Or Ordinary Train Staff & Ticket as it is known in NSW)
was in western NSW, especially on the Broken Hill line which was double
ended, very long and characterised having mostly unattended staff stations.
It was very bad there.
I assume that the Cairns tableland section will have to be upgraded when the
through railcar service starts running to Woop Woop or wherever its going
and the new sugar mill starts operation. My main question was in relation to
this whole thing, though, relates to the tableland line which is pretty busy
for some of its length and the wisdom of retaining small sections of token
working on an otherwise tokenless system. It seems to me to be bad systems
design and just asks for errors to be made.
BTW - I'd use DOS in the situation you described. Neither Win3.1 or 95 are
sufficently stable to be safe in difficult circumstances. (Mercy Bill, I
didn't mean it - have some more money)
Barry Campbell