On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 04:28:52 -0700 (PDT), puffernutter
wrote:



We are now on the third generation "Auto driver" box as well.

Also to go to a further depth of nitpicking, it wasn't just "Shut the
Doors" and "Press two (sic) start buttons", the drivers window also
had to be fully closed (prevented beheadings at the tunnel headwalls!)

Unusually for the time, there were no side doors to the drivers cabs
on 1967 TS, probably for similar reasons (press the buttons, train
starts moving, try to get out for some reason and wind up half inside
and half on the platform at Seven Sisters). ISTR that when 1960TS
units were fitted with ATO they had the side doors welded shut (or
otherwise securely locked).