>dave pierson wrote in message <6i760b$aqe$1@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>...
>>In article <6i3pco$lrp$4@nswpull.telstra.net>, "Tezza"
><tezza@atinet.com.au> writes...
>>>Any figures on accidents/deaths in Nth America?
>> Not enough to hand to draw conclusions.
>> US, 5 year average, deaths per passenger mile: 0.6/billion (US billion)
>> UK, single year (not clear which), same units, 0.5/billion (US billion)
>> Which is across ALL systems of train operation, so near impossible
>> to sort out "token (staff, etc) is/is not safer".
>Do any of them use the disappearing train type of radio for issuing Train
>Orders?
hmmmmmmm,
Do i feel a leg pull??? 8)>>
When radio was first introduced to US operations there were REAL FIRM
rules not to use it for train orders. After a bit, they worked out the
routine & now it is routinely used for 'track warrants', the ~logical
successor~ for train orders, as it was for train orders. once they
got the rules in place.
thanks
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