09-07-2015, 01:36 PM
(09-07-2015, 01:22 PM)Piggy Wrote: I bet all of us on here could drive a train with some basic training. Most of it is automated now anyhow. It's not about loading it with coal and balancing the boiler pressure!
You don't have a clue do you? It's not physically challenging but mentally it certainly is.
Working alone for hours upon hours confined to one area.
Having to stay away from home in areas you don't know. Away from family.
Having 100's of lives in your hands, you make a mistake and you're responsible.
Having to be unsupervised but carry out critical procedures, you've got to be massively self disciplined.
What about the train drivers that have hit people on the line, how do you think it affects them for the rest of their lives? Shutting their eyes at night and seeing that person looking at the train, the driver being able to do nothing to prevent what happens next in time to save them. The permanent damage that does to the driver.
Sorry but you touched a nerve there, I'm no train driver and don't have any family or anything that are - but people that obviously don't know about occupations yet feel they can criticise isn't something that washes well with me.