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

["Richard and Debbie" <debard@winshop.com.au>]

Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au> wrote in message
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> MarkBau1 wrote:
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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.>>>>>
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> > 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.
> >

And have a look at the US safety record against Australia.

Cheers
Ricky