Basil Jet wrote:
On 25/11/2019 22:57, Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:

How much 'practice' do you think you'll need to drive a ~600 tonne object
which takes over a mile to stop, at up to 125mph in 50 yard visibility fog,
without losing time, over 700 miles of route?


Surely the Aberdeen-Penzance train doesn't have a single driver for the
13 hour journey.


No, there will be several driver changes along the way, not least because
very few TOCs have lodging agreements for drivers.

But that's not what I meant. I sign 700 miles of route, obviously I don't
drive it all every day.


Anna Noyd-Dryver