Re: Vic Train Guards.

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Michael wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Sounds like a load of bs to me. Possibly confused with putting the
> obligatory 100 conductors back on trams, or the removal of Sydney guards
> after the olympics (grin, duck, run). :-)
> 
> I say b/s, because there isn't a need for guards in Melbourne these days,
> we got DOOMED, and the inevitable DOOM seems to work well.

GDR :-) I like it.
I won't start on the Sydney Guard caper but I have worked some of those
modified cars. It appears that Cityrail are up to their old tricks, with
bodgy "tack on" door open lights. They have wired the indicator lights
in bypassing the test circut (on K sets), so we can't test if the thing
is working or not. And of course we STILL have no speedos that work.

It was probably the conductor story "modified" to Cityrail standards.
:-)

rgds