On 2015-07-11 18:28:00 +0000, Paul Cummins said:

all I'm going to say is that I still can't master driving a train or tube,

Interesting as I've driven a Class 101 DMU (which involves a bit more
than a modern one, given the semi-manual transmission and vacuum brake)
and didn't actually find it all that difficult. Indeed, I was OK
enough with it that at one point the instructor decided it was OK to
wander off to the van to chat with his mate who was acting as the guard
and leave me to it!

OK, it was on a preserved line, so far fewer challenges, but in terms
of the mechanics of driving the train (rather than all the other stuff
drivers have to learn for the mainline and Tube) it wasn't hard.

The PC based simulators are actually a bit harder than the real thing
because you don't have the kind of feedback (feeling of acceleration
and braking etc) that you do with the real thing.

Neil
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