Sat Nav for a train?

[The Planner]

But surely driver knowledge and reading through lets the driver do that anyway? A driver isnt chasing reds and on the cab rides I have done it is obvious they are reading as far ahead as possible.

 

[ComUtoR]

Driver A brakes at the two yellows and drops their speed gently
Driver B brakes between two yellow and and single yellow
Driver C brakes hard on sighting and then poodles along at a severe reduced speed
Driver D is Metro so runs at an even speed but well below line speed
Driver E is Mainline and drops their speed and holds right back and doesn't take power again till they get a green

I'd say that it is trying to introduce a consistent approach and it more mindful of the bigger picture. I rarely consider the units behind me and brake for my service. I'm not thinking about overlaps and pathways.

 

[HarleyDavidson]

But surely driver knowledge and reading through lets the driver do that anyway? A driver isnt chasing reds and on the cab rides I have done it is obvious they are reading as far ahead as possible.

I've been using RTT to get my information together and then add it to the schedule sheet if it's a "foreign" depots turn, but for my own depots work I know thexactly timings for the trains and what speed I have or need to achieve to match them. I also pace myself if I can see restrictive signals ahead, braking is done very subtly and usually without the punters noticing too much.

The art is keeping it moving, as long as they're moving and making progress they're usually quite happy, it's when you get the unnecessary stop/start journey do they get a tad peed off.

 

[G136GREYHOUND]

Driver A brakes at the two yellows and drops their speed gently
Driver B brakes between two yellow and and single yellow
Driver C brakes hard on sighting and then poodles along at a severe reduced speed
Driver D is Metro so runs at an even speed but well below line speed
Driver E is Mainline and drops their speed and holds right back and doesn't take power again till they get a green

I'd say that it is trying to introduce a consistent approach and it more mindful of the bigger picture. I rarely consider the units behind me and brake for my service. I'm not thinking about overlaps and pathways.

Indeed whilst running on restrictive aspects when you are clearly following something, then surely most of us adjust our speed to get a green just before the magnet ?

 

[HarleyDavidson]

Driving on headways is a fine art, but gives you a nice little bit of satisfaction in this day and age of bland, boring and repetitive work, sometimes I do it just to see how slow you need to go to get greens and OMG with some driver's it's incredibly slow.:roll: