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It's also worth noting that, just because the guard doesn't seem to be too focused on things, there's nothing stopping them sending a report off to their Digital Fraud team at a later. Doing so, like this, is part of conflict avoidance training- get the facts from a brief, seemingly throwaway...

This is the case. Depending on where you're departing from, you might need three signals to show proceed aspects just to clear the platform, certainly on some of the higher numbered ones. While the signalling diagrams might show just two berths, it is possible to have a number of different...

We do try to announce anything affecting journeys in good time. As well as working out if we'll actually be delayed, or if we'll be let through a junction ahead of another train to make up time, there's a myriad of other things going on. Could be liaising with control regarding forward...

Possibly. Depends on rostering rules. With our firm, it'd just be doable.

196s also have the same.

Cheers for that. So, any reason why the headlights go out at point of derailment? Would the carriage lights also have gone totally, or would emergency systems activate?

You'll be taught all the things you need to know during your time in training school. What you can do is look at the soft skills that guards exercise- how they do announcements, dealing with passenger queries, fare evaders or ticket irregularities etc. Those are the things that you learn on...

Is there any particular reason why the headlights extinguish at point of derailment?

Is it purely a timing thing? As in two long wrong direction moves at caution- from the down, xover and then to the up- would take far too long? While a unit wouldn't go near the worksite, in theory, if there's a driver error- an over run at Telford Central- it wouldn't be stopped by the...

I was thinking this for potential turns at TFC with a shunt back to Madeley. Would a 'pass main aspect at danger caution stop short stop board, call when ready to shunt' instruction allow space to turn back, or is that just too complicated? Edit. I don't think a shunt at WLN would encroach on...

It's never that many as you're not taking into account the fare dodgers who just say 'from the last station'.

Well, no. But it still stands that Wellington P2 is bi-directional.

I think the local instruction requires a member of the Rail freight terminal to be present to 'accept' any loco/unit into the sidings, even if they don't actually go into the yard. Outside of scheduled, rare, movements, I'm not sure this is feasible. And TfW drivers will absolutely have all the...

P2 is and is used to terminate short of Shrewsbury and go right time back Up to Birmingham.

No, the protecting signal is further on, beyond Donnington Junction, just before the Haybridge Road bridge, behind the Cylinder factory. Edit: signal MJ356