Re: Safeworking Rules.

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

> In the trucking case we dont have any sort of rule which allows truckers to go
> thru traffic lights when they are red, even if the lights have failed , even
> with the most extreme caution.

Bulldust!
So if the traffic light have failed and a Police officer (I'm being
politicaly correct) directs you through you won't move?
Its the same thing in our case it is the signaller.
Ok if the traffic light fails at 4 am are you going to sit there for 2
hours while you wait to get the thing fixed?

> Its simply taken that the risk grossly outweighs the benefit.

> In practice however its not a problem because traffic lights rarely fail and
> when they do they are promptly fixed.
> No reason why the same cant apply to Rail signals .

I'd like to see you sitting on a train for hours when you know that
there is no real reason why you have to be there in the first place.

rgds
> 
> MD