CarterUSM
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A stop command can be sent via NRN though if need be. A voice command I mean.
I suspect we'll get another post from Ferret soon, saying that guards running down the train track placing TC clips is superior to CSR. The delusion is painful.
Never said that, once nor can you find any quotes that infer that.
I have argued the guards role (as opposed from ticket collectors) is relatively insignificant with modern signalling and communications.
Virtually all the advantages and more can be had with CSR/DOO/customer focussed ticket staff (as will be operating on the Bathgate route) especially when compared to Absolute block and trains with guards. Even the doors issue can be solved with GPS.
The case was reported by at least two different newspapers from very diffferent stables. The two I have seen used the same words.So you want to know what i consider sensationalist....... Ok what about this;
'A drunken train Guard signalled his driver to go through a red light and refused to open the doors to let passengers off or on during a terrifying journey between Waterloo and Kingston'
Was the train being driven at excessive speed? NO!
Was the train being driven in a reckless manner? NO!
Was the passengers life's ever in danger? NO!
Would the passengers left on the platform be aware of what was going on? Highly Unlikely!
Did the train go through a Red Light? NO!
So quantify Terrifying?
Now if train doors have not opened and the signal is given to the driver why wasnt the pass comm used? Not sure if it was a 455 which if it was the train would stop straight away or a 450 in which case it would alert the driver anyway.
'Travellers hammered on the drivers door to alert him after the doors failed to open to open at Barnes' See above comment!
'Eventually at Mortlake he investigated'. Well he couldnt stop at any other station as Mortlake was the next station anyway!
'a commuter phoned Police and Officers were waiting when the train pulled into Wimbledon' Now that maybe fact however why wasnt the Guard taken off at Mortlake when the driver went back to investigate he would have surely known the state the Guard was in. Why again was the train allowed to continue all the way onto Wimbledon some 12 stations further down the line passing the very busy Richmond, busy Twickenham and Kingston? Now that would be terrifying knowing that the Guard who had operated the train in a eratic way was still in charge!
'was found slumped over his controls' Now pardon me what controls are we talking about? His Number one key? Highly dangerous that is! Are the door controls flat down on a desk hence the slumped over the controls comment or are they on a panel that requires staff to stand in order to operate the controls? That would be quite a feat to be slumped over door controls that are quite high up and most are at face level!
However i am probably looking at this in rose tinted spectacles with a pair of blinkers on.