Re: guard/driver training (was: "Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe")

["Strzeleckie & Co." <sproul@dcsi.net.au>]

MarkBau1 <markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk> wrote in message
19990511033905.09631.00000722@ng-cb1.aol.com">news:19990511033905.09631.00000722@ng-cb1.aol.com...
> <<<<<<> So to say that a guard can come out of a 5 week school and perform
to a
> 100
> > percent expectation level is ludicrous.>>>>>
>
> Your argument falls down a little when it is known that trains can run
just
> fine with no guard!
>
> 5 weeks, I could have a newbie 90% of the way to being a good spark driver
in
> that time.
>
> Is Australia the last country in the world that thinks it takes years to
train
> drivers and guards?
>
> Mark.
>
>
> Visit my train pic website at:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~markbau/
>
> Horizontal Lift Driver comes to mind.
Graeme.