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

Subject: Re: guard/driver training (was: "Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe")
From: markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk (MarkBau1)
Date: 14 May 1999 00:34:52 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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<<<<<You can certainly teach people by the book(s) in a short time - I don't
dispute that at all, but to give people a classroom course and then say
"right, off you go" doesn't work with a system so diverse as ours.>>>>>

Its funny that US roads can take a bloke off the street and have him running
15,000 ton coal trains in under a year yet in Australia it takes longer than
that to train a driver of much smaller trains.

I wonder why that is?

Mark


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http://home.earthlink.net/~markbau/

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