Sandspider

What's everyone's take on this??

The tube drivers are kicking off about it.... cos it's got a suicide (or 2) on the tube.

Steve Crook

My take on it is that I haven't heard of it or seen anything about it.

Tube drivers are used to suicides. It's part of their training. They don't happen very often, but they are taught how to deal with it.

My cousin used to drive a London bus. She said the bit she disliked most was when a message would come over the radio asking the driver if the legs were still moving

Steve

batman

Three and Out (2008)

I wish I had claws.

CaptainWaggett

I'm not sure what sort of training you could have that could really get you 'used' to running people over...

Here's a review of the film

batman

The training would encompass aspects of psychological therapies, grief and loss counselling and PTSD awareness.

I wish I had claws.

Lord Brett

I saw a trailer for it the other night. It didn't look good, exactly, but its heart appeared to be a lot nearer the right place than the film's basic premise might suggest.

Steve Crook

The training isn't intended to get them used to it. It's to train them in what to do if it does happen. It really doesn't happen very often

Steve

CaptainWaggett

I suppose it depends on what you mean by often. It's about 95 a year so while an individual driver is unlikely to encounter a suicide in a given year, I would imagine most of them experience it eventually. I did once encounter a train driver who had run over someone (it wasn't his fault) and he certainly wasn't given much in the way of counselling though this was 20 years ago.

I enjoyed Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself which was on a similar subject and which managed to be blackly funny and devastatingly tragic at the same time so maybe this will be as good.

Steve Crook

Given the number of tube journeys made in a year I would think that the chance of any one driver having someone jump in front of them are pretty low, even if they stayed in the job for many years.

I can't find a figure for the total number of journeys per train or per driver per year but each train travels around 73,500 miles per year and the tube carries 19 million individual passengers annually and more than a billion passenger journeys are made each year.

Steve