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Old December 1st 09, 07:02 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default DLR Train Captain Texting Whilst 'Driving'

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:26:57 -0000, "tim...."
wrote:

But he isn't "driving" it. He's just sitting there pretending to do so, so
that pax don't get concerned about travelling in a driverless train


No, he isn't, he's sitting there because it's for whatever reason (he
wants to sit down, or the train is too full) more convenient to
operate the doors from there.

Normally on the DLR, he does the job standing by the doors.

Neil

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