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Ah yes 722. If I had a quid for every time I shunted that thing in or out of the repair shops I would have long since retired. Has it finally been flushed out, never to return?

I just want Darth Vader to turn up one day. ‘You have failed me for the last time Grayling’....

Not with traditional approaches to safety.

What do we notice has happened on the graph for about the last ten years? The same thing that has happened to safety levels in many systems and organisations. Safety levels have platued and further improvement is not being made.

Held whilst they setup pilotman working to or from an obstruction?

I had an incident recently where my train was crossed from the down to the up wrong road without the route indication being displayed. The route indicator was found to be faulty. This happened in the dark in one of the most complex areas of the route. The signal with the junction indicator...

If we killed 1793 people this year on the UK rail network what would happen?

I agree with the comment we maybe on the brink of a major disaster. I remember seeing a Government Minister saying on TV recently ‘we have the safest railway in the workd’. I thought remarks like that so often preceed catastrophe.

There is a lot of evidence that organisations with strong confidential/anonymous reporting systems kill fewer people. Sandilands is a great example. Zero, yes zero, (source RAIB report), to the operators confidential reporting system in the 5 years leading up to the accident. 7 dead. 505...

I have read recently: The field guide to understanding human error - Professor Sidney Dekker Safety I and Safety II The last and future of safety management - Dr Erik Hollnagel Learned so much and now applying it to how I drive. One thing these books explain is that the more technology and the...

How is the industry going to continue to assure safety and guard against safety complacency? There is ever growing focus on performance, and it’s been so long since a major accident on the UK rail network.

The low passenger growth at Chelmsford and Colchester indicates to me these stations have reached capacity. With continued housing development in and around Chelmsford the case for Beaulieu Park is quite strong. To deliver some of the proposed infrastructure upgrades such as remodelling Bow...

I did the ‘how to become’ 1 day course prior to my interview with the TOC I drive for. That’s what they told me to say in the final managers interview. I said it. Got a shunter drivers job, became a main line driver subsequently.

Because you have no doubt, if recruited, you will be a a very capable individual in that role.

How many people commenting on here have actually ever dispatched a DOO train?

Having been humiliated with the harmonisation vote the ASLEF leadership were never going to put this to a vote. GA drivers always have been and always will be second class members of ASLEF.

Thanks. We have the odd diagram or two which finishes with either Q cars back to our yard or on the cushions back. I remember my first traction instructor referring to coupling units as ‘smashing then up’. Then there are ‘the wires’ or ‘the knitting’.

Bardic. Used to hear ‘it’s on the peg’ as the first country end departure from our yard in the morning used to be put at the country end signal once released from ‘the shed’. No longer possible now, and haven’t heard it for a while consequently. ‘Cars to London’ for example to describe an ECS...

Or the unions.

That the pay gap between those tube drivers reported to be earning £100k and the rest of us is closed.