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Boxing Day Tube Strike - What A Surprise
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:52:57 -0800 (PST)
Joe wrote: On Dec 15, 11:46=A0am, wrote: So go on , tell us , whats so hard about driving a train? Do you have to steer? No. Nope, not as such, but you have to know where you're going, knowing your route inside out with all possible diversionary routes and be able to stop and challenge a wrong routing if it happens. The signallers make mistakes too! No doubt, but how is that any different to a car driver learning various routes to work? Do you have to judge other traffic and react accordingly? No. Yes you do, if you have a train in the section in front of you, you're going to bloody well stop! You will react differently approaching a double yellow, single yellow or red signal. So you see a yellow you slow, if you see a red you stop. Not rocket science. Do you have to change gear? No. Depending on weather conditions, fog, snow, heavy rain, you will use a different traction power setting accordingly! And hows that different to doing the same in a car? It's not a simple case of "sitting on your arse pushing a button", No, but neither is it the most complex job in the world either. Certainly driving a tube train is NOT worth 50K, especially an automatic one. There's also the family life aspect, the shift work can make you miss your loved ones for more than a week, you come home as they're going to work or vice versa, ending up tired after a week of early starts (3am), yet trying to mainting 100% concentration for up to 9 and a Plenty of people do shift work. They don't earn 50K. happens on the railway at speed needs to be dealt with ASAP. If you're trundling along at 90mph and see a cow on the track or a broken rail or some idiot playing chicken, you have to be on the ball to stop or If you doing 90mph in a train and there's an obstruction at any visible distance ahead you're probably screwed so I can't see much point worrying about it. B2003 |
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Boxing Day Tube Strike - What A Surprise
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:16:59 +0000
Eric wrote: No doubt, but how is that any different to a car driver learning various routes to work? Very few car/truck drivers learn their regular routes to the extent that train drivers have to. Just where to turn and a few tricks about lane changes and visibility problems. Am where the potholes are, where the speed cameras are, what are the alternative routes if there's a traffic jam. Where are the shops along the way etc etc. What does a train driver have to learn? Where the signals are and the speed limits and .... anything else? So you see a yellow you slow, if you see a red you stop. Not rocket science. Given the stopping distances of trains and their variations under changes in weather or something that a car driver would consider The placing of the signals takes all that into account. Why do you think there are yellow and double yellow in the first place? payments (mostly fully justified). And is your idea of equitable pay rates that everyone should be reduced to the lowest level? No, but nor do I think the greedy *******s should be threatening a strike for more money when they're already grossly overpaid for what they do. If you doing 90mph in a train and there's an obstruction at any visible distance ahead you're probably screwed so I can't see much point worrying about it. You may be going to hit it whatever you do, but depending what is is there may be a whole variety of sensible responses. Such as? What other options do you have after you put on the emergency brake? Activate the secret levitation device so the train can jump over the obstacle? But then you don't actually want to know do you? You'll just go on Go on , tell us then. visible circumstances, let alone the hidden ones. And of course you do your job perfectly all the time, and are paid exactly what it is worth, and always will be, and you will always have a job. Rhubarb!!! I'm actually underpaid for what I do but its a recession so beggars etc... B2003 |
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