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At its peak we were running 2 X west Worthing to Seaford an hour and 1X Littlehampton to Eastbourne an hour and vice versa if I remember correctly. I know the coastway west to Eastbourne we’re 2Rxx train running codes. Then from the operating point of view if you brought the trains into...

Quite often when the 9Sxx Brighton to Cambridge is running a few minutes late the 9Rxx Three Bridges to Bedford will use platform 1 at Norwood Junction and cross to the up LB fast line just north of the station.

In our part of the old SR land we used to have Through and Local in multiple track areas until the BML resignalling of the early 80s came along. :lol:

So the Brighton main line starting from London Victoria is listed on signalling diagrams as the Down & Up Brighton Fast and Slow lines, the Down & Up Victoria Fast and Slow lines, the Down & Up Fast and Slow lines, the Down and Up Quarry lines, the Down & Up Redhill lines, the Down & Up...

Without knowing too much about the location, I would say it’s flank protection, where the normal position of the points is set towards the non conflicting route regardless what is the main or branch route.

Unfortunately there are no such arrangements.

TBASC limits of control. Anerley, TBROC fringe Bromley Up and Down Junctions Exclusive, VASC fringe (soon to be TBROC fringe) Between Norbury and Thornton Heath, TBROC fringe Between Waddon and Wallington, TBROC fringe Upper Warlingham, Oxted signalbox fringe Godstone, Ashford IECC fringe...

It was planned to run the 1Pxx, 9Jxx and 9Txx services via Sydenham using Emergency Special Working on the UP and Down Sussex Fast only, but in the end the maximum amount of trains that could run that way were only the 9Jxx with the 9Txx going via Streaham and the 1pxx either going to London...

What test train we’ve never seen it run once yet. It must be a very rarely used protective path then!!!!

Actually the Ops department at the time including the ops managers, local ops managers, H&S reps, local staff reps all protested at the proposed new layout and how bad it will be to operate from both the public and signallers point of view, all objections were overruled. We can’t see no logical...

since COVID we don’t have a rush period and the service is basically the same pattern all day but for some reason the timetable planners at both East Croydon and Gatwick Airport have reversed some of the platforms in what would of been the old rush period. This often gets overlooked when you’ve...

Balcombe Tunnel Junction to Cooyhold Junction is full bi-di signalling with a couple of signal sections missing compared to right direction. Then Hayward's Heath to Keymer Junction and Keymer Junction to Preston Park is SIMBIDs with only one signal section for the whole of the wrong direction...

As all rosters are subject to local negotiation, so they will be different from ROC to ROC and indeed different within the ROCs for each link.

At our ASC the signallers don’t have access to TOPS/TRUST only the SSMs do and they have to watch over 10 panels and they would meed to know that there is a stock alteration. Plus only one of our major stations has weekly stock working sheets for planned formations only. So not all of NR is...

That will depends on who’s working the panel and what other trains are around.

We have signalled routes northbound out of platform 3 and the Down Through Road back along the Down Redhill Line in the up direction towards Merstham to a limit of shunt beyond 1909 crossover points (which are the facing points for down trains to gain access to platform 0). Also this limit of...

Three Bridges ASC has never had any separate internal flexi relief jobs, the staff reps past and present were very good at steering away from that concept.

TBASC has two 42 line rosters (East Link and West Link) both are 12hrs rosters and within the lines of the rosters are GPR turns, which everyone covers on rotation.

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That move has only been possible since the layout changed in 2009 ready for the East London Line. Before that you could only reverse at South Croydon from the country end only as the bi directional signalling at the time wouldn’t allow London end reverse moves.