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

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

Cheers
Ricky
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Sure, considering that US RR's run many, many more tains and move MANY more
tons than Australian railways the yanks can have a few more bingles and still
come out lower on an incidence ratio. BTW, most prangs in recent years have
been due to dispatcher error or fatigue. The way the new Australian operators
are going it looks like fatigue may become a major issue in Australia too.

Having gone through both systems of driver/engineer training I know that the US
system was much more extensive than my VR training, even though it only took
1/4 of the time. 

Mark.


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