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

[craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick)]

In <373AE695.2DBDEB14@ozemail.com.au> David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> writes:

>> We had a perfect example of this at Cronulla a couple of years ago when
>> the guard on the last train in one weeknight belled the driver back
>> through a set of open catchpoints towards the mainline when he mistook the
>> wrong signal as being the right one by assuming the actual correct signal
>> had failed, so the other one must have been pulled off instead.... Doh!
>>
>> He'd obviously never really learnt Cronulla yard properly... 8-)

>Even the ASM (DM?) down there doesn't know Cronulla too well.  He tried to clear
>the starting signal, but it wouldn't clear, so he cleared the shunt ahead signal
>and told the driver to shunt ahead to Woolooware and keep going.   Hmmmmm.

Given that I was there on that day, I clearly remember this, and the great
thing about it was that the said ASM (actually BP) wrote a submission to the
then line manager a few days later seeking approval for sending trains
*through the section* from Cronulla to Caringbah (single line track block)
on the shunt-ahead! Can you believe it! I couldn't, until he even had the
gaul to show me a copy of the submission....

Sometimes I wonder just how far the word 'safe' actually sinks into people's
brains when they are bending safeworking rules to suit their own situations.

Regards,

Craig.

PS. Good to see you back... have a good holiday? 8-)

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