Hi all,

If a station (railway stopping place) is provide with CCTV with a screen and reception available to the driver's cab a-la-Perth - then you don't need Guards, and you don't need station staff if there are ticket machines that backup tag-on tag-off travel cards - again a-la-Perth.

AND before someone writes that Perth is NOT the only place with tag-on tag-off travel cards, I don't think there are other places with that travel card system in place that also has paper ticket machines as well?
Again, Perth has paper ticket machines to cater for the one-off traveller, of which there are many.

As far as driverless trains are concerned, I was under the impression that a person (with an employee description to suit the pay scale) would be on the loco in case of mishap, train failure and so on.

A driverless unmanned locomotive will have a lot of trouble re-coupling a train that has separated, or rectifying a failed loco or hand operating points (switches) that have failed and so on.

Perhaps the theory is that these events are so rare that the cost of having to put some recovery plan in place to rectify such events, is miniscule compared to the cost of employee savings to be realised.

I wonder if the Train Controller will be recompensed for the extra duties and skills they will need?

Bob in Perth – watching these developments with much interest.

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From:TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2017 9:11 AM
To:TramsDownUnder@...
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] New trains on Gold Coast line to have impressive modern features | Gold Coast Bulletin

On 26/07/17 10:51, Richard Youl mailto:tressteleg@yahoo.com.autressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder]
wrote:
> Hopefully they have solved all the problems with these Indian built trains.

>

> However with the guards now located at the rear of these trains, a station employee will have to meet each of these trains near the centre cars to assist on or off any wheelchairs. That clearly will be an ongoing expense, from first train to last.

>


Why have guards at all then ?. If they are no longer providing passenger assistance, why are they there ?.

A modern train doesn't need a second person to operate the doors. It's arguable that a modern train needs a driver up front either.

Rio Tinto is about to put driverless unit ore trains into production.
Even train drivers are not safe from computerization.





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