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

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Keith Malcolm)]

In article <19990513203452.07299.00000221@ng21.aol.com> markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk (MarkBau1) writes:
>From: markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk (MarkBau1)
>Subject: Re: guard/driver training (was: "Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe")
>Date: 14 May 1999 00:34:52 GMT

><<<<<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


>Visit my train pic website at:
>http://home.earthlink.net/~markbau/

Doesn't mean it's sensible though.

Dave Malcolm