Does London Marylebone have dispatchers?

[truecrimelover]

I’ve recently seen a job advert for a dispatcher at London Marylebone but I thought they all self dispatched by the guard (for 68s) or driver (for all other trains) as I’ve never seen a train be dispatched from there before? Is this just for the Class 68 services? Please correct me if I’m wrong

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Why have you posted 4 separate threads today trying to find out the be nitty gritty details of dispatchers... Seems a bit suspect.

It’s just what I’m interested in that’s all. It’s not the only aspect of the railway I have an interest in so I won’t just be asking questions about the dispatch process but there are a few things about the processes at various stations that I’m curious about

 

[james_the_xv]

I believe Marylebone is platform staff dispatch via RA indicator on the signal (there's a second indicator on the signals, I assume CD but not sure it's used).

 

[Cherry_Picker]

Marylebone uses CDRA indicators, loco hauled sets will just use RA.

 

[12LDA28C]

I’ve recently seen a job advert for a dispatcher at London Marylebone but I thought they all self dispatched by the guard (for 68s) or driver (for all other trains) as I’ve never seen a train be dispatched from there before? Is this just for the Class 68 services? Please correct me if I’m wrong

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The method of dispatch at Marylebone has been by platform staff for 30+ years. It's the dispatcher's responsibility to provide CD and RA and to watch the train until it has completely left the station.

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I believe Marylebone is platform staff dispatch via RA indicator on the signal (there's a second indicator on the signals, I assume CD but not sure it's used).

CD and RA are used for DOO passenger trains. RA only for ECS movements.