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Not the Network Rail side of things, that was sorted out after 1994 dispute with Railtrack with the 1994 agreement. Where by signallers are contracted and do work on Christmas Day & Boxing Day regardless if any trains run or not, especially in the big signalling centres (ROCs, SCCs, IESSs, PSBs...

We have grade 2 crossing keepers along the south coast whether they are required to sit through the whole signalling school or have reduced training to what is only required for a crossing keeper I do not know.

Or in fact any infrastructure improvement work whether it be civils, signalling, power supply or a combination of the above. All I'm saying is the cost of laying third rail plus the skills are out there, that might need pulling together, but they don't need to be relearned, especially if you...

I know I'm not talking vast about of route mileage, but we have engineers who have laid a fair amount conductor rail as in the East London Line New Cross gate including depot to Highbury & Islington including sub station, the Thameslink at Three Bridges depot including its own sub station, then...

Is it me or is this scheme starting to suffer from scope creep and it's bound not run in sync with any of the TMS plans or panel migration :lol:

Two that are the closest to me. GTR Southern at Selhurst GTR Thameslink (Siemens) at Three Bridges

Was told until further notice apart from first and last services there would be no coastway east or west services to or from London on Saturdays nor will there be any splitting or attaching at Haywards Heath, Horsham, Redhill or Purley UFN as well.

And lodging lol :D

I've got friends who worked on the old Southern franchise and were complaining of being demoralised working for the old GOVIA Southern management up to two years before in got absorbed into the new GTR management contract. They were hoping that there might of been a new change of management that...

We have plenty of recently promoted and new off the streets that have arrived under the new vetting system at my place, that you are far better off using the roads to travel. But we also have ones that have taken to it like a duck to water.. We also have plenty of 30yr men that can't move...

Don't you kid yourself that signalling has or is becoming more efficient, granted that the area that an individual signaller is controlling is constantly pushing the boundaries, but those boundaries frequently collapse under severe workload when things go wrong. The bigger the territory the...

Well there you may have a point on that, but I'm not sure how many turns South Eastern cover and how long the gaps in the service would be like inbetween trains that would of been GTR Southern worked. This one is well and truly in GTRs court, run an ad-hoc service or suspend the lot?

Probably because South Eastern Trains would need to cover it on overtime if requested by GTR to work the line. Then they would have to ask their guards and drivers from Hastings and Tonbridge depots to wok extra turns of overtime knowing that the colleagues are in dispute in a highly unionised...

I agree it's just another case of going full circle again, when a qualified back in 89 you were apexpected to climb signal ladders to relight or replace signal oil lamps and clip your own points if they had failed within walking distance of your signalbox, PTS in those days either. You were also...

In geological terms, yes the aim is to use that building for signalling at some point in the long term future lmao :lol:

The new berthing sidings at Horsham are virtually ready to go and should be open in the new year and it's our understanding that GTR want to use them as soon as possible since they are paying for them.

Donated to the "Spa Valley Railway" I believe. Certainly went out via a low loader.

There was no national strike in 1994 brought about by privatisation! There was however a signalmans strike over the new "Signalmans restructuring deal" which was started under British Rail and finished under Railtrack ownership whereby signalman went from class A to F to signallers grade 1 - 8...

We used to have a Timetable(s) when South Eastern ran the service which was essentially half hourly from Tonbridge to Redhill with one service extrended to London Bridge 2Bxx and an the other going Horsham as 1Exx returning as 1Jxx and between then they took the path of the second Horsham to...

I expect that it's all down to whether the axle counters are equipped with EPRs (engineers possession reminders) or not, if they are not then a disturbed axle counter(s) will require a sweeper train to restore them to normal use after a conditional reset has been carried out after a possession...