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

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

MarkBau1 wrote:

> <<<<<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

So can we the drivers school takes only 26 weeks