On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:09:24 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:
In message , at 09:50:45 on Wed, 19 Jun
2013, d remarked:
Most surprising revelation, that BA's chief Pilot had never been up
that[1] control tower before. I'd expect that someone in his position
would make more of an effort to build bonds between the various
professions at work.
How often do train drivers go and visit the signalmen at work?
I don't know, but considering how long it takes to learn to be a driver,
I'd hope they spent a few days with a signalman to get a feel for how
the other half lives.
These days, aren't the signallers more likely to be people in a large
windowless centralised signalling centres which are much like
Swanwick? I can't imagine many drivers visit such centres, or even if
they do, they won't spend a few days working in front of the array of
large computer monitors. At best, they may just be shown round once.