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It's very hard to crash a train as a signaller, I would say it would have to be almost a deliberate act and as for distraction, try working in a multi panel signalling centre with the best part of 15 signallers/SSMs as well as 2 or 3 TDACs for good measure all on the opps floor. It doesn't have...

I'm guessing that most of this funding is either the money to sort out the Selhurst, Norwood, Croydon triangle or could be coming from DaFTs digital railway budget, or both?

I don't think much of these so called railway experts, haven't they heard of interlocking, it's been around a long time :D

I agree before they use GSMR as any sort of safety critical carrier it needs to be sorted out. There have been a national outage, two south east England outages, loss of local cells, miss directed calls, wrong areas, black spots still and this is only in the last year. This system has been...

Caterham 8 car only Tattenham has 9 car useable length. But any train formed of two units requires the rear unit to be locked out of use.

I presume only once you've made the PA call to drag the the onboard member of staff away from their passenger facing duties, who is competent to drive, to walk through a busy 12 car commuter train to the front driving controls and make themselves known to the signaller/controller.

Yes there was and the route I mentioned was signed out of use on 5/12/16 --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I'm very familiar with Stoats nest Junction at the moment, with what can be done and what can not be done and only the points I said are OOU.

It's going to interesting to authorise a computer to pass a signal/marker board at danger over several sets of points that have been manually wound and thus have no detection due to a failure.

Interesting as the only points signed out of use are 1667 points between the up and down quarry lines preventing moves from up quarry to up slow. Down slow to down quarry has been used today as there was a points failure at Redhill.

Just a quick correction, it's found in the 2001 agreement not the NRP.

Flexibility premium, sounds like a GPR position.

Once they finish with London Bridge it should be onwards to Norwood Junction, Selhurst and East Croydon remodelling if the plans ever leave the drawing board and get funded!

I expect that TMS isolated will end up in most signalling centres and those signalboxes with critical regulating to do, that are not due for immediate migration to the ROCs. It's the bit of techno that they can get to work, see as a CCF replacemnt type of thing. It would be interesting to...

I agree the migration lists are well out of date now. Yes it is happening but no where near the speed that they first suggested. Half of my signalling centre was due to close by August 2017 by the original plans 5 or 6 years ago. Now we are nearly there, there isn't even any plans on the drawing...

Yeah, you, me and most of south east England agree on that one.

Most but not all services used it today, as I was watching on CCF for most of my shift. It all seemed to be running very smoothly especially through Bricklayers Arms junction. There were a lot of controlled signals worked in auto (a very rare event until now). Most up used the USS/F onto the...

I suppose we are looking at jobs that have to work and those that we would like to work. For those jobs those who seek where you have to work over the Christmas period, them you should know the score before they apply or at least find out during the application for the said jobs. For the ones...

Well one at least lol :D

After 18 weeks of increasing bitter strikes and on our unions instances, we reluctantly agreed to the signalmans restructuring agreement and kissed goodbye to our Christmas's as they became just another bank holiday and all rostered turns even on bank holidays have to be honoured. At the...