Re: Melton - Bacchus Marsh close revisited.

[stephen <hannam@pipeline.com.au>]

Drivers in Sprinters have to stand to see the unit.
N class units are at eye level

David Langley wrote:

> stephen wrote:
>
> > The drivers have to take their eyes away from the track to read the ASW unit. as
> > this may take a while to read the message this was deemed to be unsafe.
> > The messages can be long so it wasn't safe.
> >
>
> But the SAW equipment in locos is not in the driver's line of sight to the track. And
> even if the equipment is on the control panel, the driver has to look down thus
> taking his eyes off the rails with the potential for problems. I personally don't
> think that any system is safe in that case if you only have 1 man in the cab. In a
> two man situation, the other person read out the section names on the electric staff
> etc. It seems that perhaps the only safe system for 1 man operation is CTC where the
> driver is already looking for signals and hence it would be no less safe than now,
>
> David.