I didn't see you! I was the one who frantically ran down the train to the buffet attendant who was guard, as the trainee guard didn't really want to do the emergency work on his own, but had to stay in the GLV! I thought there was a brake faliure or the like, the GLV's brake cylinder / brake pipe meters were going haywire!
Oh do stop exaggerating and making up stories for dramatic effect...
All that happens with any sort of DSD brake application is that the needle drops from 5 bar to 0 bar. It is a brake application. It is hardly a gauge "going haywire".
I was driving, so stop spinning tales. You aren't best placed to diagnose a fault from your position of expertise in a buffet car. But at least you could get a muffin.
What is all this "emergency" work you are talking about, you aren't trained or passed to carry out any safety critical duties, you aren't a driver, you aren't a guard, and you shouldn't be running around. If ever there is an emergency, you'll be looked after by people who know what they are doing and who are trained to do it, so stop trying to create a story out of an utterly mundane incident and the most minor of faults.
Why on earth did you "run frantically" down the train? What were you going to do? Put your mouth on the pipe and reinflate the brake pipe? Or just get a muffin from the buffet?
I'm not entirely sure why you were in the cab of the GLV anyway, you aren't passed to be there, and shouldn't have been in there. Please keep out of it!
Now please stop stirring the pot to make yourself sound important.
The DSD/Drivers Vigilence Device fault was rectified in the platform and the loco drove to the shed under its own power, so stop trying to invent a story, and certainly stop trying to pretend you took heroic action in some sort of "emergency". I imagine the only emergency was a shortage of cake when you got to the buffet.
What a load of tripe. You obviously don't get out much, DSD AWS or TPWS related brake applications are part of normal life on the main line, no one is thrown out of their seat, that is total nonsense.
