Re: Driver Fatigue
Tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:07:35 +1000
Maurie Daly wrote in message ...
>Blaming drivers for rail accidents is and probably will always be a
convenient
>copout for rail administrations who really dont want to do anything to
improve
>safety on their railways.
>It staggers me that in 1998 that we still have safeworking systems
comprising
>signals which do NOTHING to stop a train if it goes past the red signal.
>At least in the good old suburban areas we have the train stops.
Which do absolutely nothing to stop a freight train from crashing into a
passenger train. It's only good luck that this has never happened.
>You cant tell me that in this day & age there is not a suitable electronic
>equivalent of the train stop that could be installed on non suburban lines.
>But no , we are going to train orders , just one level above no safeworking
at
>all.
>Where will it end.
In the coroner's court.