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You will then the competency revalidation program to go with it.... its not just training drivers - its also keeping them validated!!!

Apart from the rules.... which dictate a brake application when running close to the indicated speed and indication starts flashing :). If braking is left to the next speed indiction then some heavy braking will be needed to stay within the braking curve. If noted by management then a short...

How certain are you? Every train I have been on (this year several dozens) that has stopped in Calais, Brussels bound, there has been a conversation between the Train Manager and the station staff regarding numbers of passengers leaving the train. What the station staff do if there are...

If you read the post you find it references Calais... Lille is a different place altogether.

Station and train staff confirm the numbers of people leaving or joining a service in either direction at Calais, the numbers are derived from the ticketing and 'check in' data. Obviously for trains going to the UK these numbers are important, and will cause problems if they don't agree. I am...

Well your tickets are to Amsterdam.... so why should they worry about a connection at Brussels?

Just ask the question... you may well get an answer. Your cheeky question is probably relevant to others.

Each digit of the indications are formed by an array of bulbs, each digit is in effect one bulb being illuminated with a image 'printed' on it, a different bulb is therefore required for each different digit / indictaion. New trains have LCD displays.

You've not travelled in a while then, the checks you've just experienced have nothing to do with Brexit, here has always been juxtaposed passport checks in each country, as well as 100% security screening (which in France is staffed by the french customs), the UK border force greet nearly all...

A token system is only as reliable as the humans operating it!!!! The system is tried and tested but is still subject to human errors (I've no knowledge of the facts of this incident and I'm not judging what occurred), but to err is human :-). If, as previous posters state, it worries them, then...

It would seem to me if this is the case that there is a design defect in the brake pipe cock - whether its fitted to the loco or vehicle, my experience of 'standard' brake pipe cocks is that they are self-venting, so for this scenario to pan out both cocks would have to have been shut.

Might need to be retrained, only been driving 35 years, triple valve stock, normal distributor, westcode, EP assisted, single piped, 2 piped - the only time I have been warned about 'running out of brake' was with triple valve stock - I had the benefit of learning southern region EPBs and then...

Lineside boards are used on cab-signalled lines when a TSR of less that 80km/h is required. When this is the case a restriction of 160km/h is first imposed by the cab signalling display before the train reaches the warning board. There is no mention if KVB is used as an additional control as in...

That article talks about 'triple valve' fitted vehicles - these vehicles are very specific. I am not aware of the type of brake distributors fitted to the Caledonian stock, but standard brake distributors whether single piped or 2 piped will not run out of air.

Nights = to and from the depot, with an occasional shunt.... earliest nights start 20:00 ish and the latest finish is 08:08. See current SNCF roster below - (4 digit turn numbers are lodges, yellow highlights are dated diagrams)