In message , Neil Williams
writes
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.

I believe on Friday and Saturday evenings she (well, there are quite a
few) is there at the front of the train to prevent the train driving
over people who have had one too many and hit the "stop" button in time.

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Paul G
Typing from Barking