What action should you take if your train does not stop at your scheduled station?

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What action should you take if your train does not stop at your scheduled station? (Voting closed: January 11, 2017, 23:57:33)

assume that the driver has only missed the station, but is otherwise mentally alert and operating as expected	12 (34.3%)
wonder if the driver is incapacitated...but surely the safety devices will stop the train if an accident is imminent	1 (2.9%)
absorb the railway safety culture and never assume that something is OK if it might not be - so operate the alarm	2 (5.7%)
cross fingers and close eyes	0 (0%)
fear that it is a terrorist hijack and sound the alarm	0 (0%)
seek out the train manager / conductor	17 (48.6%)
don't know / undecided	3 (8.6%)

Total Voters: 35

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Re: What action should you take if your train does not stop at your scheduled station?

« Reply #30 on: December 28, 2016, 11:50:54 »

Or put someone already radicalised through the training programme as a trainee driver with a TOC^▸ .


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Re: What action should you take if your train does not stop at your scheduled station?

« Reply #31 on: January 04, 2017, 09:53:34 »

Quote from: Bmblbzzz on December 27, 2016, 20:02:00

It's normal to learn to drive a car, bus or lorry, there are lots of places you can learn to fly a plane recreationally and plenty of people sail motorboats recreationally, but the only place I can think of that you could learn to drive a train, other than by becoming a train driver, is a preserved line. So perhaps the various security agencies should be investigating Bitton etc? Is the new image of a terrorist going to be a middle-aged or retired man with a beer gut and slight OCD? Wink

I am sure that the security agencies have thought about it.


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