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I believe it's all down to maintenance, 100hph railways cost more to maintain and require more inspections with the lines being closed more often for those track and point inspections. The fact that it was upgraded was for only the Connex Express 319s that could barely optain full linespeed in...

Oh well, let's just hope it tea, with biscuits, with some suitable advice and training and not much more for the poor driver concerned.

I was more like thinking the breaks released and the train rolled backwards on a grade.

Well they can always overlay it with those sticks with colour lights, after all if it's good for the critical thameslink core, then a steady roll out shouldn't be out of the question. :lol: I know your closer to the current plans than me (about 10ft lol) but as I said if it's a slow phasing in...

Driven backwards i.e. Wrong direction move or rolling backwards uncontrolled? I authorised a wrong direction move today to release a trapped train due to infrastructure failure, so going the wrong way can be done and safely under the right conditions.

I have a sneaking suspicion that there will a slow roll out north and south of the Thameslink core along the ECML and the BML one because I believe that most of the trains will have fitted from new (700s, 717s, 800s, 801s and 802s) and the other beacuae it will go hand in hand with the...

Not on this occasion. The service is not booked to attach or have anything else attach to it.

There were no DMUs around that day on the platform in question and I can't remember the last time a Marshlink service used anything other than platforms 6-8, we'll certainly not on any shift I've worked recently.

The south end of Redhill is not being altered at this stage.

Your showing the Up Tonbridge goods loop as removed, but in fact it's now a 12car electric siding from the Redhill end, with Tonbridge end points C&P but still detected for interlocking purposes.

Those two locations are covered by two different LOMs and should you be successful you will find them pleasant to work for.

No I'm talking about the platform 1 bay solution that we are due to have shortly. :mad:

When I went to a meeting with Redhill platform 0 project sponsor, it was more to do with the Thameslink 2018 timetable plans than the North Downs Line. They were selling the fact that any increase in the NDL timetable would be a byproduct of surplus capacity after Thameslink has taken their slice.

You will be shown as Spare on your roster. And will be subject to clause 3.5 from The "National Rostering Principles" 3. 5​ Taking into consideration the difficulty relief/flexible signallers may have arranging family commitments etc. a minimum of 48 hours notice should be given when changing...

As a GPR signaller you will have a fixed rest day and Sunday off pattern and that's about it. Then you work the box hours and shifts of the signalboxes that you work, covering the residents signallers annual leave, comp leave, briefing days and sickness cover as required.

You want bet on that, we have to use the public access route if we need to read it. :mad:

Not many of them are on the BML. We can chuck north versus south all we want, the fact is railway investment goes round in circles and everyone has to watch with envy until their particular line sees an upgrade. All the Thameslink ungrade is going to do is put more pressure on the BML...

Train Delay Attribution Clerk.

Same here for our Signal Managers SMs they weren't LOMs when I last worked a single manned mechanical box. I wonder if it's a universal national code or if every area had its own take on it lol :D Speaking of uninvited visitors I had to use 1-1-6 bell code in anger once, only for my colleague...

The BML line hasn't had any serious funding since the early 80s, since then, York, Newcastle, Aire Valley, the joint line/Lincoln virtually all of the West Midlands, Nottingham and the East Midlands have been resignqlled. The whole of the West Coast Mainline to just short of Crewe and Stockport...