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I forget that bit, you expect a stutter or momentary pause as what’s just been said to sink in and the thought process to kick in, but to hang up, that is so wrong on many levels.

Probably because we are not really taught how to deal with such calls, from the initial shock of the information coming in, to actually using a very rarely used rule. There is no real rehearsal or realistic simulation for such invents so it’s just down to that persons personality type and how...

T3 is not the rule book section for signalling disconnection but the section relevant to engineering work where the line is totally shut to trains. All codes that are inputted into the train describer apart from WTT train IDs (now corrupted to what most people call headcodes) are personal...

With a trip planned to York and then on to Scotland for the West Highland Way then returning home to the south east I’m watching with great interest how LNER are getting on with their Azuma’s medium to long term, but this does seem to be a long term problem at the moment.

I believe that your only seeing Panel colours is red is red and green is for any proceed aspect ie single yellow, double yellow or green and that flashing green actually represents one of the two yellow signals depending on how many aspects the actual signals show on the ground.

For a train driver it’s got to be the worst thing in the world to see hear and then deal with, so I could even imagine what that feels like. As a signaller of over 30 years with 20 of them in a multi Panel Signalling Centre having that emergency call (CSR) now REC call GSMR is one of the worst...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96915808@N03/39976558943/in/photostream/lightbox/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/96915808@N03/33065575718/in/photostream/lightbox/ As you can see from the first picture the crossover points concerned are No 13 points and the diagram indicate a Facing Point Lock...

The reason the Southern having such a comprehension mapping even for the mechanical areas was for CSR (Cab Secure Radio) and the need to have positive train location for every stop signal, regardless of interlocking type or control interface.

This is not a rule or an agreement between NR and the trade unions, NR is simply following the employment laws on the statute books, where by an employer has to give the employees days off for bank public holidays unless they can’t then they must give a competently Fay off in lieu instead. If...

You wouldn’t get any resistance from the the signallers about berthing in platform 1 at Redhill because we are allowed to as it’s now a bay platform and the local instructions were amended to take that into account when they modified the station layout.

That one westcad workstation was part of VASC Panel 6 which transferred to TBROC as Thameskink Core south Workstation quite a few years back, the remainder of VASC Panel 6 was transferred on to VASC Panel 8 when the workstation was still temporary inside VASC.

The triangle denotes a colour light distant signal as apposed to the old method of using the associated stop signal number with “R” single yellow distant or “RR” double yellow distant.

As with everything on the railway there are exceptions to every rule and we have distant signals (on the Brighton Main Line) that display a red aspect in normal conditions but when required as a distant the red aspect is suppressed (as is full bidirectional signalling is brought into use). Does...

Both sides of Victoria ASC (Central & Eastern links) are 8hr rosters.

They were railway contractors and I actually got caught in their mess being stuck at Hooton waiting for a Liverpool train. Also theywere also the same contractors working at my location and had to suspend work until they completed a more thorough site survey.

There are plans in every PSB, ASC, SCC, IECC, ROC that deal with how to bring the railway to a safe stand in the event of fire alarms going off. Two stage fire alarms, zoned areas and the opps floor is the most fire protected room in the building so the signalling staff will always be the lsat...

For personal needs out side your rostered breaks if you get any, you to learn how and when to manage your needs. Before they split our busiest panel up, we had 120 trains during the main morning peak hour, I could still find gaps to go to the toilet or make a cup of tea or coffee.

Panel breaks are subject to local agreements between the local management and local LDC staff reps linked into the roster that you may or may not be working. There is no national template for breaks.

There are no POSA signals under the control of TBASC at Gatwick or anywhere else, they are proposed for Gatwick as an add to the re-locking scheme when platform 7 was introduced but nothing came of it.

Out of the 87 signallers at my location only one is female.