Recent content by Yabbadabba

You can operate an MDB-OD manually from the remote signal(box,centre) but that's not the preferred method of working as it's designed to reduce the signallers workload. Where the signaller only really needs interact with it when one of the various alarms that monitor it give a warning. You...

Then I apologise because that's how I was reading it, but I must of been reading it wrong and missed whatever point you were trying to make. Sorry. I'm pretty sure my house longer meets the modern standards for wiring but if you built a new house next to it, that would. Don't standards like...

You seem to be pulling facts to suit yourself, there has also ways been a signal London bound on the approach to Plumpton, but what was said was that if things go wrong and what you ignored was trains can be held back at Cooksbridge in the London Direction. If we go with you idea that you are...

You might as well add trains can and do run through level crossing gates when things go not as expected, as happened in the deepest depths of East Anglia this year. It's a fact of life in all things that surround us, whether it's the railways, aviation, shipping or the school run some things can...

Well both platforms can be signalled so trains arrive in parallel. All you need to do is guarantee that every train runs as a pair every time all the time, add a splash of a hindsight tool and hey presto it works. Or signallers, drivers, guards, platform staff, controllers and not forgetting the...

Cooksbridge is a good place to hold a train back, it has a nice platform.

Or it could be equally unsafe to place the signal on the approach to the station and have a failed train in the signal section ahead, where by you end up holding the next outside a station for a prolonged time. And we know passengers do have a habit of pulling the egress handles and going...

Without looking out of the train window to see if the protecting signals have TPWS fitted or not. But if they do then they are good for speed up to 75mph when armed by a red aspect. So any train passing a sigmal at danger will be down to 15mph and still braking.

Because it would involve more than moving just one signal to ensure that there is the correct breaking and sighting distance form the previous signals for the line speed. Your doing a lot of fishing which is ok. But for someone who lives so close to the crossing and is being directly effected...

Stowmarket Controls. (Controls that cause a level crossing in very close proximity to a stop signal to start its amber and red light sequence when a train approaches (125m) the signal at danger, if they haven't already been called to lower.) It's just an extra layer of safety should for...

Because trains aren't timed to arrive together, usually 2 mins apart. So to have two arriving together one would have to be late and then your going to have to make it later (if its departing from plat 5 first) while you wait for the signalling overlap to time out thus releasing the route form...

That's what I said (vice going via Herne Hill) :-)

Oh it does and it has, just might have to collect some shrubbery on the way to the buffers depending on how well they keep the weeds at bay lol :lol: --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I often do that anyway when things are going wrong, because as you say, you can arrive in plat 3...

East Croydon terminus, then off to the perturbation siding, as used quite frequently these days. lol :lol:

When you say PRIV are you referring to your company staff discount card or PRIV CARD as in what safe guarded rail staff get because they worked for British Rail pre privatisation, because if it's the latter your not entitled to one being a new entrant to the railway. International coupons and...