Slovenia - advice please

[AdamWW]

Just travelled from Ljubjana to Pula with an old SZ series 711 from Divaca. Its like traveling back 50 years in time, stations with only a couple of trains a day still have their station masters. Train at best 10% full and of those the vast majority were interrailing. Passports get checked crossing the border. Scenery reasonably impressive but not the best. Most of the Slovenian network now operated by Stadlers

Is it possible that the "station masters" are also signallers?

 

[D6130]

Is it possible that the "station masters" are also signallers?

Absolutely so. They wear red caps when monitoring passing trains from the platform and checking the tail lamps. Those red caps are their authority to control the relevant block sections and drivers must obey their instructions at all times.

 

[Austriantrain]

Absolutely so. They wear red caps when monitoring passing trains from the platform and checking the tail lamps. Those red caps are their authority to control the relevant block sections and drivers must obey their instructions at all times.

The red caps are traditional in Austria as well (Germany too, I think?), although much of the network is not signaled locally anymore. The red-capped „Fahrdienstleiter“ (≈ „Head of train circulation“) used to be ubiquitous though. Nowadays, they mostly sit in an ROC and presumably don’t wear those caps anymore. In any case, their traditional role was operations, signaling and safety first, passengers last.

 

[Mag_seven]

I've seen "redcaps" in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and only yesterday in Hungary!

 

[Segedunum]

Yes, a good chunk of stations in the Czech Republic not suffixed with "Zastavka" (our equivalent of "halt") are the same.

You'll often see them coming outside to monitor passing trains. Some do dispatch, some just stick their head out the office door.

It makes sense for them to be doing signalling and everything else, as I did wonder what they did at a station that maybe had a service of a few tpd each way!

 

[AdamWW]

Yes, a good chunk of stations in the Czech Republic not suffixed with "Zastavka" (our equivalent of "halt") are the same.

You'll often see them coming outside to monitor passing trains. Some do dispatch, some just stick their head out the office door.

It makes sense for them to be doing signalling and everything else, as I did wonder what they did at a station that maybe had a service of a few tpd each way!

Absolutely so. They wear red caps when monitoring passing trains from the platform and checking the tail lamps. Those red caps are their authority to control the relevant block sections and drivers must obey their instructions at all times.

Aaaah. That's presumably why I've seen them pop out, red-hatted, as a train comes through, then go indoors and re-emerge un-hatted to go about other station business.

 

[RokDiv]

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