Detraining On Your Own - Proposed Rule Change
Submitted by Peter on 23 April, 2010 - 19:09A proposed change to the rule book, dated the end of last year, suggests that train operators could detrain on their own if a train is stalled without communications in a tunnel for more than half an hour.
The proposal document details how you should walk ahead of the customers making efforts to ensure they are all following and get them to pass on information amongst themselves about trip hazards. At points using telephone wires to turn of traction current. When you get to the next station get staff assistance if this is possible. This would suggest that it may not be possible to find staff at a section 12 station.
Download the full document to make up your own mind about whether it is safe and what it means for the future of staffing levels on stations were it to be implemented.