Driving trams.
demondriver44
Monday, March 4, 2002 1:59 AM
Murph,I agree with you about the discipline involved in driving
trams,I have never driven heavy buses or semis but would have put in
well over 1,000,000 km driving other things and tram driving is a
very different discipline,mind you,quite a few trammies shouldn't be
put in charge of a wheelbarrow and sometimes the most unlikely ones
will give the smoothest and fastest ride.When I started my braking
was good but my acceleration was careless and rough,this was
corrected by Peter Winspur,early in the piece fortunately,after that
I was a far better driver and connies would change shifts to work
with me,they knew they wouldn't be thrown all over the car and they
would only take their fair share,the bag would not be too heavy.I did
not run ahead though,just on the knocker.So many people have said to
me that tram driving must be boring and so easy but it was never so
for me and after 25 years I still sometimes miss it.I love the feel
of the steel wheels turning on steel rail and all the variety of
sounds as you pass over railjoints and through special work,your
senses and your body learns all this stuff and it becomes innate,it
never goes away.Peter E.you know what I'm talking about.Peter Bruce.
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trams,I have never driven heavy buses or semis but would have put in
well over 1,000,000 km driving other things and tram driving is a
very different discipline,mind you,quite a few trammies shouldn't be
put in charge of a wheelbarrow and sometimes the most unlikely ones
will give the smoothest and fastest ride.When I started my braking
was good but my acceleration was careless and rough,this was
corrected by Peter Winspur,early in the piece fortunately,after that
I was a far better driver and connies would change shifts to work
with me,they knew they wouldn't be thrown all over the car and they
would only take their fair share,the bag would not be too heavy.I did
not run ahead though,just on the knocker.So many people have said to
me that tram driving must be boring and so easy but it was never so
for me and after 25 years I still sometimes miss it.I love the feel
of the steel wheels turning on steel rail and all the variety of
sounds as you pass over railjoints and through special work,your
senses and your body learns all this stuff and it becomes innate,it
never goes away.Peter E.you know what I'm talking about.Peter Bruce.
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