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pdeaves
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No doubt it will help you get experience that will make it easier to pass 'main line' tests, but it won't make you qualified.
Harbornite
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No...
What makes me mainline compliant is being competent in the Rule Book. Traction doesn't mean much more than me being competent to drive that specific unit. I am mainline qualified but that doesn't mean I am DMU qualified or able to run on heritage routes. Routes and Traction competencies would be required.
Speed also has little to do with it. Being Metro I am generally running sub 60mph but I also run up to 100 mph too. I can just as easily run faster if I changed route/traction.
Do you need to be rule book competent/qualified to run on heritage track ? What training do you get ?
Speed also has little to do with it. Being Metro I am generally running sub 60mph but I also run up to 100 mph too. I can just as easily run faster if I changed route/traction.
Do you need to be rule book competent/qualified to run on heritage track ? What training do you get ?
Furthermore, on a Heritage line you’d be driving first generation DMUs - Class 101- 130 or thereabouts. Maybe a class 140/141 at a stretch. On the mainline the closest thing is a class 142/43/44 pacer, and they’d all be at least 2nd Generation units.
I suspect that also has a lot to do with preventing people just tipping up and wanting to drive trains and generally Walt about and to make sure your committed to volunteering before spending valuable time teaching people to drive and learn the rules and routes for that line.
ChopperWhopper
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I think we’ve all seen what happens when people only trained/passed out for heritage railways get let loose on the mainline.
Ooooer,
At 25 mph you can pretty much drive line of sight and have up to 20 miles to learn. On the big railway that would ruin the timekeeping and you would be looking at least 50 miles with multi platform stations at the ends (OT which depot has the shortest route knowledge?).
Still if it appeals go for it.
At 25 mph you can pretty much drive line of sight and have up to 20 miles to learn. On the big railway that would ruin the timekeeping and you would be looking at least 50 miles with multi platform stations at the ends (OT which depot has the shortest route knowledge?).
Still if it appeals go for it.
Potentially East Ham on c2c?
221129
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Stourbridge Junction, surely...
They're not "proper" drivers though are they?
221129
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I Don't see why not?
They're guards as well
Highlandspring
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Ryde St John's Road, Island Line?
tsr
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Aside from those mentioned above... for mainland routes and conventional stock, Caterham (Southern) and perhaps one of the London Overground depots must be contenders. Heathrow Express can’t have that high a mileage tally, either.
Bromley boy
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NXG Overground only sign what was the east London line and down to west Croydon, I believe.
What routes do Caterham sign, out of interest?
Qwerty133
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Certainly contenders for the most useless route knowledge if not the shortest...
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