Re: Did the 9:57 reach Lithgow?

["The Railway Rasputin." <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Eric Cartman wrote:
> 
> 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)


As far as train crew, none. We were given a track plan/map.

> 
> 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".

Yes but did the lack of training have any thing to do with it???
> 
> 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?
> 
Once earlier this year and atleast 1 in 1998
rgds


> Eric
> www.erk.au.com
> Lots of new transport pics @ www.erk.au.com
> 
> >>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
> >
> >