Showdown in rail WHAT TO DO • Plan a tour of sacked railworkers to local first class compartments?" ' Protecting passengers such outrageous a se guards so The of a guard's job.
prime responsability, along with the driver. is to the train and on passenger trains to the passagers u aboon lo the usual task of making off safely at stations the guard has often got commercial duties.
If a train is involved in an accident the guard is responsible TOT stopping the train, putting out any fire, moving passengers to a safe place uncoupling burning vehicles that the rest of the train can be drawn away and UTULCU ting other running lines by train. Contact the Arainst Pit Closures with a view to families.
• In light of the large numbers of black Asian workers in the in. dustry, enlist the support of these communities in any locai solidarity actions.
• Organise solidarity actions to coincide with local action taken by railworkers workplace collections delegations on the pickel-ble lo ITISEMI as the dispute develops. Make Cure MPs councillors the dispute, and join any pickel-bacs. • Join with Socialist Action supporters your area to get out the reilworkers' case and to actively organise to force the BR Board to retreat Help railworkers learn by selling the pamphle Railworkers and Miners and In Defence of the NUM.
•.or a Or a realiti Oh. I give up what a peculiar L idea! I assume Chal THERE'S A clipping on my mess room wall. It reads 'overheard at a party: posh young woman sayplacing track circuit operating clips on the rails detonator in In case of injury to the NUR guard driver their tasks fall on the guard. In the case of an accident to driver-only trains the driver, , if uninjured, is to look for *responsible person to perform the guard's duties. But many 'responsible people' out to neutralise the third rail.
put down detonators? what happens when the driver in injured - which = is often the case?
1984 there mere almost 1000 incidents of derailments, trains runeing into obstacles and cot lisions between trains. For example Isle in the yest there was & serious coli freight train and a passenger train НСДИ Wembley. his quick thinkine praised for quick for out and 'proter ine' tbe accident sit Ironically the persom who performed the guard's duty was Richard editor of the Railway Gazette, on of the main 'experts' used b management to convince the public that guards are a useless hangover from the past. member of the public l fairly the type everyone will be rely on, on their journey!
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ing to a friend, 'Of course we need guards, who else is going to keep second class passengers out of our