Re: Someone killed in Melbourne Loop this morning?

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

I remember my old tram driver trainer tell me "You won't be a real tram
driver until you kill someone".

I came close in three years on that job, but luckily avoided fatal accidents
such as cars  driving into stationary trams at a terminus and deliberate
suicides that friends of mine had to endure.

Train drivers would have to have a similar philosophy wouldn't they?

Cheers
John Wayman

Iming Chan <chani@translib.com.au> wrote in message
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> Doug Mason wrote:
>
> > I was told that you are not allowed to tell passengers that someone had
> > been killed, or anything like that, and just to say 'that due to a
> > technical fault this train will yadda yadda yadda'.  If you go telling
> > people someone has been killed it may upset a few people.
>
> That driver must have gone through "old" school.  In "new" school, he
would
> have been told to use:
>
> "Due to obstruction of track ..."
>
> Cheers,
>
> I.C.
>
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