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All the experts on here the other day telling me "it can't be done"...... turns out it can be done after all.

What's that? Slam door stock on its way to the GWR? https://railcam.uk/rcdata/RCData2_detail.php?r=S&tid=42587L2L10&fbclid=IwAR3Hf5p470UMDVd-Ep9-yjzWbi2iasCNzsmkylXhBAFrXRCAIYA6cZFdCkw

Good grief, I was merely speculating, on a thread that specifically asks for speculation. The NHS is not a religion and mentioning it is not blasphemy, so chill your boots.

I didn't say lives would be lost? This thread is titled "IET's grounded - what would you run?" I answered HSTs I was told not possible due to the time expired since drivers last drove HSTs. All I am saying is that if ex Medics were able to come back to the NHS then surely ex HST drivers (who...

If the NHS can fast track retired medics onto the front line, then there must be a way of ex HST drivers showing competence. This really isn't brain surgery. And if those former HST drivers still work on the ECML, then the signal placements bla bla bla problem is solved too

Thanks, for your response. I think I mentioned earlier, how the NHS fast tracked former medical staff back into service. If needs must, realistically, how difficult would it be for an experienced former driver to demonstrate competence? As regards the stock, as recently as 6 weeks ago, MK3 sets...

As I understand risk is determined by Liklihood x Consequence. Yes the consequence of HST driver forgetting how to drive would be high, the liklihood is going to be pretty low, I would have thought.

Are former HST drivers particularly prone to forgetfulness or something? Its difficult to believe that a driver who has spent a career buzzing up and down the ECML in HSTs and who has continued driving the route in other vehicles, will, within a couple of years, have forgotten how to safely drive.

I have already answered that question, in the case of a plane, probably no. I just don't think that a train is 'analagous' to an airliner; a pilot controls the direction of travel up, down, port and starboard, between altitudes of 0ft and 30,000ft. A train driver either goes forward or backwards...

Yes, why not?

On the contrary, there are people here that are suggesting that driver's have such little memory capacity that a year after last having driven a HST they would have forgotten how to do so. Just not buying that.

Possibly not a plane. I can't drive a train, but I can drive a car, whether its a diesel, petrol, electric, estate, saloon or van, manual or automatic, I could jump in any vehicle and drive it. And I could drive the vehicle on routes that I have never even been on before. And if for some reason...

Forgive my ignorance, but what are the safety critical factors that prevent someone with years of experience going up and down the ECML in HSTs from jumping in a cab and doing it again? Is it not as simple as moving a handle to make the train move forward, pressing a brake when they get to a...

How long would such a training process take? As I say, its a thought for if this is a prolonged problem, if the speed of refreshing training was faster than the time spent repairing faults then surely it would be an better option than having no trains? After all we have seen in the last 15...

If this is likely to be a prolonged issue, then there will surely have to be flexibility on allowing redundant but useful HST sets to run on the LNER rather than sit idle? I get that driver's tickets may have lapsed, but surely even after a year drivers will still retain the knowledge and...