Re: How Many Railway Staff to Push a Wheelchair?

"Charlie Hulme" <info@davenportstation.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Stephen wrote:
>
>> My eye was caught by a number of Network Rail and station staff in orange
>> vests as I alighted from a bus. Seeing a few NR branded cars in the car
>> park I decided to be a little nosey to see what they were up to. I
>> couldn't believe that a member of station staff was given the job of
>> pushing (well, pulling to be exact) someone in a wheelchair over the
>> tracks on the barrow crossing whilst all eight NR staff followed it
>> across. The member of station staff then left the person in the
>> wheelchair with the NR staff all looking at the barrow crossing. They
>> should have just used the lifts as then it would have just been one man!
>
> I'd guess what was going on here was some kind of trial to check the
> procedure for using the barrow crossing when necessary.
>
But even so surely a maximum of two NR staff not a crowd could have done
that. No wonder NR is gobbling up so much money.

And it's not exactly rocket science to push or pull a wheelchair over a
barrow crossing. Just how many years have they been doing that?
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