"SB" wrote in message
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Just come off the DLR at Tower Gateway at 19.33 tp be exact. Between
Limehouse and TG the train captain was sitting at the front with the
console open supposedly monitoring the operation of the train. However
during all of that time he actually sat there texting on his mobile
phone, with his attention fully on the message he was typing, and he
only stopped doing this when we drew into the TG platform. Bearing in
mind that there have been a number of fatal crashes in the US due to
the drivers texting, is this acceptable behaviour? SB.

As it is considered acceptable for the train to be driven under computer
control without the train captain's supervision, then in general I would
have thought that it was acceptable for him to be doing other things. In
the US incidents to which you refer, was the train under the control of the
driver, or under computer control?
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David Biddulph