MrBitsy wrote on 22 May 2009 19:40:12 ...
"Recliner" wrote in message
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"MrBitsy" wrote in message


C) The trains are due to be replaced in a couple of years time
anyway.
In two years, this mistake is likely to happen again - I hope it is
not someone you love who may be injured.
It would take longer to modify the current stock than they will remain in
service. The demand is simply absurd. In any case, with a line entirely in
tunnel, the risk to pax is less than on any line with surface or
double-track tunnel running. Of all the bizarre Crow-****, this must be
the worst.

A man lost his job, regardless where the line is.

A man lost his job, not because he made a mistake, but because after
making a mistake he failed to carry out the proper safe procedure. If
the union think that sacking him was not justified, they should take the
matter to an industrial tribunal, rather than inconveniencing thousands
of passengers.

We are told that the monotony of the job makes it easy to make this sort
of mistake. Is that because the cab windows are in the tunnel when the
train stops, and the driver can't therefore see which side the platform
is by looking through his side window? If so, why don't they put some
big signs on the tunnel walls opposite where the cab window stops? (X
on the wrong side, tick on the correct side, or something like that.)
Just a bit easier and quicker to implement than retro-fitting CSDE on
42-year-old trains. That's if the assessed risk justifies any action at
all.

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Richard J.
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