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Fantastic news, congratulations! What Horizon22 said, more or less.

Certainly do, most people I've known as 18 year olds have come in through platform grades. It's definitely possible. I was signalling a busy main line at 20 not all that long ago, and there was a 19 year old set on after me! Totally agree with Horizon22's advice, prepare with STAR format and...

Nah guess not. Still going to need a bit of testing though, as are the passenger brake timings.

RETB fitment is easy enough. It's the braking capability that will need some work for that line, bringing a sleeper smoothly down from County March into Fort William is no mean feat, even at 40mph max.

You’d be mad! Signallers (or train dispatchers) in the US tend to work for private train companies in big call centre like control centres that cover the whole country, with maybe 100 panels in each. They tend to be in industrial estates in undesirable cities (this is where Network Rail got the...

Correct. For the benefit of any unitiated reading this difference between crossing keeper and signaller (apart from pay/competence management etc) is essentially that the crossing keeper, once the crossing is clear, gives an interlocked indication to the signaller (known as a “slot”) that the...

There is the odd crossing keeper (graded and trained as such) job that involves managing at least one CCTV crossing (Colthrop, Kintbury, Alstone & Basingstoke ROC spring to mind) but you are generally correct

I think all Norwegian train drivers have to go through here - www.lokforerskolen.no. So it might be worth contacting them and seeing what the craic is regarding transfer (although I suspect you will have to start from scratch) Minimum B2 Norwegian

Correct!

Yes I have gone a bit obscure on this one in hindsight, apologies This place is (or maybe used to be until recently) one of the places where train crew swapped on a long rural railway. (Crews from the North would go back North, and crews from the South would go back South)

Sadly not - will need to be booked in advance (via ScotRail site I believe for the seats on the Fort William portion ) as the train is “reservations compulsory”.

From one obscure crew change point to another

Garscadden

There's another former T/Op (I forget his name but he uploads to YouTube under the name "it's just an idea") who, I believed, lived in Swansea. Have also heard tell of at least one in Glasgow, although that may have been control room/management staff. Hotels near to booking on points tend to...

Although there was a slight dip for the refurbishment of the latter Duke Street & Alexandra Parade have both doubled in usage in the past 5 years, next year it looks like around 400k for the Parade and 250k for Duke Street. Busy all day, and the newish Sunday service is well used. Dennistoun...