HST Measurement Train

[dangie]

Apologies if this has been asked before, or the answer is obvious, I’m not too clued up on these things.
’Who drives the HST Measurement Train?’
Considering it covers all or most of the UK network, how many drivers are required to drive it, considering the route knowledge required?

 

[43096]

Apologies if this has been asked before, or the answer is obvious, I’m not too clued up on these things.
’Who drives the HST Measurement Train?’
Considering it covers all or most of the UK network, how many drivers are required to drive it, considering the route knowledge required?

Colas drivers crew the NMT as part of their infrastructure monitoring contract.

 

[Yorkshire09876]

I believe it's Colas drivers.

 

[swt_passenger]

It was asked and answered in the driver recruitment thread back in ‘22:

New Measurement Train Drivers

Hopefully an easy question to answer. Who drives the NMT? Going all over the country, there can't be drivers that have committed all that route knowledge to memory, so there must be local drivers that swap out at various points. Are they NR employees or contractors? How does scheduling work? Do...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[dangie]

It was asked and answered in the driver recruitment thread back in ‘22:

New Measurement Train Drivers

Hopefully an easy question to answer. Who drives the NMT? Going all over the country, there can't be drivers that have committed all that route knowledge to memory, so there must be local drivers that swap out at various points. Are they NR employees or contractors? How does scheduling work? Do...

www.railforums.co.uk

Thank you for that

 

[driverd]

Apologies if this has been asked before, or the answer is obvious, I’m not too clued up on these things.
’Who drives the HST Measurement Train?’
Considering it covers all or most of the UK network, how many drivers are required to drive it, considering the route knowledge required?

Colas Rail Infrastructure Monitoring drivers.

There's currently around 65 drivers in that pool, spread around the country. Whilst it's true that route cards of said drivers tend to be pretty large, it's abnormal for a given NMT shift to be covered by a single driver in it's entirety.

These drivers also cover the various other test trains network rail own (with the exception of the class 950/Track recording unit).

 

[5562]

Does that also include the GBRf 73/9s? And 153s.

 

[driverd]

Does that also include the GBRf 73/9s? And 153s.

Depending upon geographical area, yes.