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Manchester ROC evacuated due to a fire alarm.

The 75% (or maximum subsidy amount if you hit that) is a taxable benefit in kind so you can expect to pay tax on it.

On a resignalling this would definitely have a TPWS OSS for the reduction in the PSR. I believe the policy of any reduction of a third without appropriate signalling (approach control red, or flashing yellows for a junction for example) requires this these days.

To answer a couple of points: There is a 75% discount scheme on season tickets for NR employees. It has some tax implications as a benefit in kind but it is usually worth it. If you get displaced from your role and are required to travel for your new role you will get some payment under PTR...

If it's Mobberley or Plumley I think you'd be looking at another 10 years before they'd end up in a ROC. (Speaking as a former Signaller from Plumley who now works in Manchester ROC)

Manchester ROC has been very close to having to close a panel on several occasions. A regular shift would have 8 workstations, 2 meal relief and 2 SSM's. At one point they were left with both SSMs working workstations and both meal relief working workstations.

From the end of Jan I think? Rather than NYE?

Shows the level of disconnect in passing on the correct information within the industry really doesn't it. I was the Signaller sat on Lime St that morning and even I wasn't told the correct reason for the cancellations.

They didn't leave them there on purpose. The trains were due to work two early morning services out of Lime St which were cancelled due to issues with the units that could not be rectified before Edge Hill depot closed at 8am.

Network Rail will pay you your basic rate of pay. Not sure what happens with Sundays // RD's though. I'd imagine you could claim payment for Mon-Fri Rest Days from the court as loss of earnings. I don't think anyone here whose done it worked Saturdays or Sundays, but neither were they able...

I'm pretty sure there is only one 9 in the North West and that's Manchester Piccadilly PSB (Station panel). A few grade 10 SSM jobs in MROC, Picc PSB and Sandhills. Other than that the highest is an 8 (quite a few of these around)

Yup, this really is a total "it depends" answer. Within our ROC there are some panels that are pretty short of cover and therefore finding cover for a Sunday can be pretty difficult, whereas other panels it's pretty simple. Also worth noting current 12 hour roster patterns, most rosters have a...

It's scored under the Hayes system which is a sort of universal job scoring system. When looking at a regrade quite a lot of stuff is looked at, track miles, route miles, number of signals/points, traffic levels, complexity of layout and number of phonecalls, parties dealt with (station...

No lonelier than any other single manned box. And we have a box tech and a meal relief. It'll be rather less lonely in a weeks time when Network Rail, Northern and TPE control all move in.

I work on the Huyton workstation at the ROC and have been told that we all have to have completed the AC training as 28th December is the new go live date. It may slip but that is the date the project have been telling our management.

I have it from a reliable source the Chat Moss lines are to be energised from December 28 2014 :)

"Inspector Sands" is a message to let those on the ground know there has been a stage 1 fire alarm activation. That could be a break glass or a heat/smoke detector. The person in the control room has to identify the activation point and acknowledge it for the message to stop repeating. If...

This isn't quite correct. The distance for the clearing point is determined by whether the Distant is a semaphore or colour light. Makes no difference what type of signal the Home is.

As a former station announcer I've actually met "Anne" a couple of times. At the time she was head of ATOS Origin's railway software department and they used to invite several announcers from round the country to come down to Nottingham for feedback on their software. Sadly I don't recall her...