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

["Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au>]

>> Have you seen the Sydney System?
>
Yes

>Just what i was about to say.
>Sydney isn't like your tin pot Victorian train set you were used to when
>you lived in Australia.
>The trains are longer.

Hmmm...true to a point, do you really need a guard for those two carriage
things?
Or the four carriage ones?
Or even the six carriage ones (VIC trains have six carriages and are driver
only)?

This would appear to eliminate some of your argument based on train length.

>Platforms are longer and curved

Victoria has curved platforms too, it's all done with mirrors. Or in extreme
cases, VDUs in front of the driver at the platform (although I don't believe
as they are that they could be at all regarded as highly effective except
for long sighted squinting train drivers, perhaps someone who drives a spark
in Victoria would care to comment?)

>and the passengers are more stupid.
>
Ahhh...this must be the real reason...8^)