Thread: Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??
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Old December 29th 11, 08:51 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:31:20 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

On 29 Dec 2011 12:16:58 GMT
Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote:
Without the angry passengers, it might have been 1 hour. "Persons on the
tracks" means, that operation can't resume, even with everything back to
normal.

People are not dumb cattle and will not just sit on a train with no
information forever if they can get out and continue their journey on foot.

So not dumb cattle but still a bit thick WRT hazard awareness ?

This has happened in the UK a number of times and train operators need to take
human behaviour into account when failures happen. Just expecting people to
sit and wait for an indeterminate period of time and do nothing is moronic.

B2003


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