Re: Did the 9:57 reach Lithgow?

["Eric Cartman" <erk_cartman@yahoo.com>]

What Dave said leads nicely onto what I was thinking after reading the
newspaper this morning - apprently the signaller is being counselled etc.
This leads me to 3 questions:

1) Seeing as though there are new routes/movements available plus new
equipment, how much training did the signaller get (this question also
applies to train crew)

2) Even though it is up to the signaller to set the right route, isn't it up
to the driver to query the route if he thinks it is wrong before he
proceeds? I remember SL2 being wrongly diverted to the ESR several years ago
and can remember reading that the driver should check if he is "being led up
the garden path".

3) When was the last time a DDIC was on the Richmond line platforms at
Blacktown and was anyone on the ng in the right place at the right time with
camera in hand?

Eric
www.erk.au.com
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>>But I thought one of the advantages claimed (in a post here some months
>ago)
>>for the re-arrangement was that a western train misrouted to the down
>Branch
>>(now apparently down Richmond) could recover its path by using the Up
>Relief
>>(now apparently "Local") to travel via the new platform 3. <g,r,d>
>
>They can - if the driver pulls up short and informs the box that he has
been
>misrouted. Looks to me like this driver went all the way to the platform -
>by then, it was too late.
>
>Dave
>
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