On 09/03/16 11:46, The Other John wrote:
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:02:19 +0000, Nick wrote:

I never liked having my trains cancelled due to lack of staff (i.e.
drivers) and I never saw a train drive perform any useful service apart
from drive, this is even when trains broke down.

Some years ago before I retired (11 years now) I was in a train which
stopped at a station and couldn't be started again. After a few minutes
the driver appeared, opened a panel in the bulkhead and thumped a row of
plug-in relays. He then returned to the cab and the train moved off. A
true engineer!

Some years ago trains were designed to have drivers that could do that
sort of thing.

Driverless trains are designed not to need it.

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time the quo has lost
its status.

Laurence Peter