Re: when did Vic stop using buffers?

["Anamul" <Mul@bigpond.com>]

On 10-Oct-1999, "Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au> wrote:

> That is correct. I went through the shunters class at Melbourne yard in 1980
> and the class was taught how to negotiate the buffers safely for
> couple/uncouple functions and it was not an experience that you would want
> to have to repeat many many times daily.Long live auto couplers.
> They used to drum into you in every Victorian railways class the following
> message,which is still just as valid today.
> The best safety device known is a careful man (person today I guess)
> As if to reinforce that message a shunter who was filling in at Spencer St
> at that time(an area which was some what specialised in the shunter
> hierarchy)was caught between the ends of two passenger cars while easing
> up.The result was instant and fatal.
> Lineman

I did my Shunter Class in Feb '81.The Pass Yard incident was a South End Assist shunting in the SG
Parcels Dock, picking up the Mail and went to kick a Jaw at the last minute(to re-align). It was a
common practice in the Goods Yards but it doesn't allow for Pass Car Concertinas

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