driver bashing; was Sydney train violence.

[petanREMOVE@ion.com.au (PETer and susAN)]

Hi John,

Ok, I'll take the bait!!!

what is your aim??  Did you try to become a driver and failed?? 

I suggest it is time you spent a few hours beside the tracks and
watched some trains.

Watch the way the driver starts 3000 tons of coal or containers
without too much, if any, wheel slip? Than watch the driver stop 3000
tons of coal at a signal.

Watch how a driver brings 3000 tons of coal down the Blue Mountains
without losing the air supply or the train running away!

The trains may not be 3000 tons of coal in your part of the world but
in central QLD it is 10,000 plus of coal with 4x4000hp electric locos
spread through the train plus all the slack... that takes skill!

Cheers
Peter Cokley



On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:45:17 +1000, "John" <Jones@optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

>How many weeks course is it to drive a train. How come all the train drivers
>I know have trouble speaking properly and are not very good at reading.
>actually I would even consider them to be illiterate. Everyone knows that in
>the past if you don't have any brains join the railway. There is the
>properway and the railway.
>
>How many train drivers stop at the right stations if it was not for the
>guard calling them in the intercom. They always seem to stop and not stop
>when they are supposed to.
>
>Tell me more train driver, why are you only a train driver, because if you
>were not you would only be a labourer.
>C. Dewick wrote in message <7k2f0l$er8$1@lios.apana.org.au>...
>>In <7k23ik$nuo$1@newsource.ihug.co.nz> "Greg" <gregg@spam.co.nz> writes:
>>
>>
>>>>            Craig Ian Dewick            |       Stand clear - jaws
>closing
>>>> Send email to craigd@lios.apana.org.au |  Visit my Australian rail
>>>transport
>>>>   Professional Train Driver, Cityrail  |      and rail modelling web
>site:
>>>>       and HO scale rail modeller       |
>>>http://lios.apana.org.au/~craigd
>>
>>>professional train driver.... thanks for the laugh mate..... its a skilled
>>>labourers job dude.....
>>
>>I forgot to mention being fully-qualified for every type of train we work,
>>that includes knowing the location of every air tap, every circuit breaker,
>>etc. etc.. as well as actually being proficient in driving the trains.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Craig.
>>--
>>            Craig Ian Dewick            |       Stand clear - jaws closing
>> Send email to craigd@lios.apana.org.au |  Visit my Australian rail
>transport
>>   Professional Train Driver, Cityrail  |      and rail modelling web site:
>>       and HO scale rail modeller       |
>http://lios.apana.org.au/~craigd
>
>