Re: Victoria Finally Adopts Modern Safeworking

[Steve Dalton <daltongang@smart.net.au>]

Train Staff and Ticket might be a great idea on low traffic lines, and
really the only time you are going to use a ticket will on Sunday's and
if extra's are running, But what about the Train Controller's, they
won't be needed when Train and Staff and Ticket is in Force unless there
is a Major Stuff up.

Steve.

Notagunzel wrote:
> 
> SW 1045/99 advises all and sundry that:
> 
> On Tuesday 6 April after the passage of train 8412 between Traralgon and
> Sale, Train Order working will be abolished and Train Staff and Ticket
> will replace it.  Train 8407 will be the first train to run on the
> Staff.
> 
> They're the important details anyway.
> 
> Now that is appears to be true, I might pass on another rumour which I
> heard a month or so back.  The first part is well known, i.e. if ARTC
> abolishes SAW/ASW on the plains line, then VLF will abolish the rest of
> the SAW/ASW territory, and replace it with train order working.  The
> second part didn't make it to this newsgroup: because the train
> controllers workload for Train Order is higher than SAW, to free up the
> workload in other areas would be done by replacing TO with TST in
> certain corridors including :beyond Traralgon, South Geelong,
> Shepperton, and possibly Ouyen.  Whether its true only time will tell,
> but TST to Sale might be only the first step?
> 
> B