The lunch men really are impressive I seen to remember a top gear episode where the 3 of them tried to beat the train to deliver the lunch. And failed miserably.
Sam
Sam
Maybe they still have a system like the "old" railway in UK where you had to serve your time in a series of less prestigious jobs during that 12 years before you got your hands on the train controls?What do they do over that 12 year period?
Maybe they still have a system like the "old" railway in UK where you had to serve your time in a series of less prestigious jobs during that 12 years before you got your hands on the train controls?
Another question - how do they manage fare collection on those massively overcrowded suburban lines? I know fares are cheap, but surely they can't have fare gates or effective manual inspection for the huge number of passengers travelling at rush hour.
I wonder if its shown on BBC World as the iplayer sadly does not work outside the UK
Just saw the section on train drivers. This one driver had 25-30 one-unders happen to him in 12 years! I wonder how they cope. I wonder when they hit someone the lines are closed like in the UK? They dont seem to have any uniforms or ID.
I remember seeing a TV documentary on Mumbai railways a few years ago where someone explained the procedure after a one-under out on the line. Basically the train continued to the next station and the guard handed a chit to the station master saying "please go to KM xxx and remove body". Cheap life indeed.Mumbai train lines are only closed for a short period to allow the various body parts to be removed, then it's back to normal working - life is cheap(er).
Maybe they still have a system like the "old" railway in UK where you had to serve your time in a series of less prestigious jobs during that 12 years before you got your hands on the train controls?
Another question - how do they manage fare collection on those massively overcrowded suburban lines? I know fares are cheap, but surely they can't have fare gates or effective manual inspection for the huge number of passengers travelling at rush hour.
It's funny how they can keep trains running in up to 10cm of water and Network Rail cant clean up a few leaves! All we need a leaf-pickers, like the muck-pickers they have.
As far as I know, the first wires went up at Mumbai CST in 1925; I'm pretty sure the series mentioned that some of the older units still being used date back to the 1920s / 1930s so are probably from the original fleet.