Originally Posted by
SOPS
KRviator. Thanks for the great info. Just one point (after 35 years and 22000 hours) I now drive trains (suburban) for a living. We dont have "dead man" but a Vigilance system. And ATP.
It depends on which suburban system and which generation of trains you're talking about. In Sydney for example, the older "Silver Sets" (K, S, and C), originally used a "dead-man's handle" while the newer sets have a vigilance system. The inadequacy of the deadman's pedal and handles on Tangara sets was one of the major contributing factors to the Waterfall crash in 2003, as I'm sure you know. this resulted in the retrofitting of vigilance systems to most older sets, but not necessarily all (some older S sets, now withdrawn, didn't get them IIRC).