Re: Safety Issue?

"Graham Harrison" <edward.harrison1@remove.btinternet.com> wrote in
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> I've just been leafing through some photographs and one appears to show
> the driver of a train reading (a newspaper?) whilst travelling at
> (probably) 80-90 mph.
>
> If that was a lorry driver I believe (1) it's dangerous (even though a
> lorry won't be that fast) (2) it's illegal.   Do similar rules apply to
> trains?

Appears to and probably?

The Sydney Telegraph newspaper (which is a bit like some of your British
tabloids) a year or so back published a picture of a train driver with a
newspaper in front of him in the cab window, with a beat up story about how
trains were unsafe with such driver attitudes.   When I enlarged the image I
could clearly see that the newspaper was upside down, so it was very
unlikely the driver would have been reading it.  Later it came out that the
reporter concerned had been busted for fare evasion, and was trying in his
own way to get back at the railway administration.

Regards

David Bennetts
Australia
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furnessvale (18.09.2008 00:32)