COMPARISON BETWEEN DRIVING A ROAD VEHICLE AND TRAIN
Just as we expect from a road vehicle driver that he should drive his vehicle smoothly and safely, so is the expectation of public at large from the train driver. The similarity however, ends here, as there is a marked difference in the Zonal Railway Training Institute, Central Railway, Bhusawal functioning and appreciation involved in train working. Some of the major areas are as below: -
1. The road vehicle by virtue of its size is fully under the control of the driver who has to focus his driving skills over a short distance, and is fully in control of the vehicle with regard to speeding or slowing down, or even bring it to a sudden halt. On the other hand, with the trailing load running into thousands of tones along with the locomotive forms one unit, which the driver has to control. To compound the problem, the entire mass (or vehicle as it can be termed in comparison to the road unit) is elastic associated with linked dynamics.
2. While for the road driver it is not a pre-requisite to know the route on which he has to travel, the train driver is required to be fully familiar of not only the section on which the train is to be worked but even the sectional geographical condition.
