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I've no intention of giving false details, but I'd like to know how you think you could be certain I was lying? Not all criminals fall into the knuckle dragging stereotype and are actually quite clever. I don't believe all that "you just know" thing either, as its unlikely you'll find out if...

Surely if you are of the bent to actively avoid paying for tickets then you will just lie? Unless I tell you my name is M Mouse of 10 Downing Street, London, you're unlikely to know if I'm telling the truth, and there is no legal requirement to carry identification.

I got the impression from the programme that the train itself was delayed an hour but I might have misheard it. Certainly shouldn't take an hour for a single train, I've had freights with hot axle alarms get on the move much quicker than that! Taking and giving up a line blockage of the adjacent...

Yes, Rolls-Royce et al are just sat there, pen in hand ready to sign the cheque to develop a new site, if only there was a train to link a couple of small towns to Skipton... I know some outlandish claims are made on this forum but the bit I've quoted is up there with the best of them. As for...

Its not a case of not telling them, you just tell them what you are doing and not what you going to do, if they would give you permission :wink: I doubt your Controllers are that much different to ours. Ours love a solution! So we just say "this is the problem, and what we have done is...."...

Yes and No. Its certainly the culture these days to ring Control for everything, so its by no means isolated to a few members of staff. However I do think this culture is spreading because we are letting it. The more we have to run everything by Control, the more control, small 'c', they think...

No no and thrice no!! The rule book does not "permit" you to be in the cab, it explicitly instructs that the driver MUST be accompanied. What will Control say when you ring them? No you mustn't follow the rulebook? Dear oh dear. Please read and familiarise yourself with TW1 Reg 14 and AC Reg 16...

Yes it does. TW1 Reg 16 and AC Reg 14 apply. During darkness, fog, falling snow or a tunnel the driver must be accompanied if a competent person is immediately available. In nearly all cases that will be the Guard. If it is reported that someone has fallen from a train, the driver MUST be...

You tried to catch me out but you hadn't realised the rule book has been changed. To be fair, there are that many damn rule changes these days I can;t blame you for that!! De jury the rulebook says Ops Control can give authority to run. De Facto its a job stopper until the water has subsided...

Whilst that doesn't suprise me, it does sadden me. If we get so scared of making a decision, then why don't they just replace us with some Eastern Europeans who will simply follow orders from Control? As to wrong-direction moves taking longer than I said - I disagree. They don't have to take...

Sorry to wee on your chips, chap, but there was an amendment (in Dec 2011, I think) and M4 is now M3 and nothing is allowed to proceed when the flooding is above the railhead without permission from Operations Control - one of the few examples where you do need to consult them. Wrong direction...

Working instructions must never take precedence over the rulebook though, that's what worries me now. Its not the fault of any individual members of staff but a culture that has spread across the industry. In my experience though Control are happy for me/my SSM to make decisions and tell them...

We all work to the RULE BOOK, not Control's instructions. Ours certainly are not rules trained, and have no authority to make or refuse decisions made by the people detailed in the right hand column of the appropriate module. Control may take a strategic role as to turning your unit round...

Does that mean you're a Guard then? The rules surrounding Wrong Direction movements are only applicable to Drivers and Signallers. I repeat, Control do NOT have the authority to approve or deny a wrong direction move, only the Driver and Signalman. Inform them, if you like, but you should not...

You're kidding, right? Control are NOT rules trained. They do not have any authority to give permission, or deny permission, for a Wrong Direction move to be made. Read TW7. Persons concerned are "Driver, Signaller". Nowhere does it say "Operations Control". They may try to interfere, but...

Its the shareholders who got bailed out, not the bankers per se, although I appreciate that many will be the one and the same. Iceland had the correct response and allowed the banks to go bankrupt, those who owned the banks should be the ones who lost out, not the general public. It would have...

Most signallers just get on with it then tell Control what they've done afterwards :wink: How would a driver know if a service was behind or not? Its the Signalman who ascertains whether it can be made safely or not. If he's not willing to set-back then it will never come to my attention in...

Unless their are catch-points or a level crossing involved, or a following train is can't be stopped by a controlled signal in rear in time, there is nothing physical to stop a train from making a wrong direction move back to the station. What a few posters have correctly mentioned is that TW7...

Its a pre-existing embankment that they are building on with nothing to demolish other than trees. I think you're right in so much as its not in the identical 4 foot as it was previously, but given the fact they can complete the majority of the work unimpeded by railways, roads, shops, houses...

Well, indeed. I especially agree about using taxpayers money to scrap old cars to buy largely cheap South-East Asian motors under the guise of environmentalism, ignoring the massive energy cost in building a new car, Although I don't support the ideological attack on bankers I take the point...