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There is no reason to, as i put a label to remind myself of something thats different is happening to the norm so as well as using magnetic labels on the control desk I will use the train describer berths. If i need to do a panel handover with such labels in the berths that my colleague doesn't...

In the bad old days of Railtrack I know of a group of overhead line engineers who had travelled all the way from deepest East Anglian and arrived at Berwick (Suusex) by mistake instead of Berwick (on Tweed) with no overhead wires in sight and had to use the signallers internal phone to inform...

Correct but in our area our train describers will display a "non discript alarm" NDA as *X** instead of **** We will often use an -EO- or *EO* for T3 when we have multiple T3s back to back and -T3- and or *T3* have already been used. Some of my colleagues that came from London Bridge ASC...

Looking at my diagrams (that could be out of date), once you leave London Bridge platforms 10-15 if you not routed onto line No9 at the staion throat then you have no choice but use the ladder at Brick Layers Arms Jcn against the flow of traffic as I can't find any other points between lines 10...

Not an answer to the original question but just to add to the mix, we have 10 of these distant signals on our district.

Lol not officially told anything (no surprises there), just have to work things out from snippets of gossip from under the con rail most of the time, although a work colleague has a family member who drivers out of Horsham depot, plus I have friends who are/were guards working out of Eastboure...

I thought that all the Horshams had gone over to the OBS role now?

The only thing I can think of that could be considered as a difference between a distant and a repeater if that in absolute block the distant signal off means that all the stop signals associated with that distant signal for signalbox X have all been cleared to off, while in TCB a repeater...

Not the ones between Balcombe Tunnel Junction and Copyhold Junction since the Bi-Di renewal. A lot of our repeaters have that have been renewed with various schemes have become plated distant signals with their own signal IDs We have a right mixed bag now, Cats & Tats, Tonbridge Line...

Not in my part of the world, it's bad enough trying to get the simplifiers to show the correct timings for staions and junctions without adding things like stock workings, drivers & guard diagrams as well.

It's a back working off the Caterham to Redhill ECS worked throughout by a Redhill Driver as Redhill crews work some Caterham services. The unit has to go somewhere to be stabled overnight and the driver needs to get back to their Home Depot, then the unit forms 2P09 to Victoria in the morning.

But that doesn't fit in with the fabled promise of 12 ROCs all able to take over each other's territory if there is a total loss of one for whatever reason. As it stands at my location we sign the thick end of 10 panels and we rotate through all of them on our roster but we are not a ROC, but we...

They are not separate until "Bricklayers Arms Junction" just north of New Cross Gate. Up to that point they are sharing the Up&Down London Bridge/Sussex fast lines with Southern south coast and outer metro services.

I don't think it was ever going to be a starter. You are never ever going to sign all of the workstations in your own ROC let alone hold knowledge of the workstations, control systems and special instructions in the other ROCs. Plus where are they going to place all of these spare workstations...

It's only scary because there is no chance to practice with an over-ride system, during the day there are too many trains and over night there are too many possessions to protect. I've have personally had indication failures and control failures as well as assisting unsure colleges on more than...

To be honest I'm not altogether sure why someone would want to listen to signaller to driver radio coms, they are quite infrequent and most of the time short or what I would consider boring to the outside world. In normal running a signaller gives instructions to drivers by the signals being...

I think the signallers on the London Bridge link, the signallers in the neighbouring boxes, the drivers and most of all the poor suffering travelling public are all looking forward to that line opening.

Yeah, tell me about it :roll:

Axle counters are still a pain but we have EPRs engineers possession reminders for unconditional resets after the vehicle management forms have been completed for the LCV line clear verification process and the T3 possession has been given up. At my location it can take 25 minutes to reset all...

The amount of times I've used the terms "over" and "out" in there proper context while using the radio you can count on one hand in the twenty or so years I've used CSR, NRM and GSM-R, that was to a voyager driver coming off depot and when I received a call on my auto line from him and even then...