Deepgreen
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Trivia - does anyone know what the code RT3187 on 'Traksy' at Salfords yard today means? If I didn't know better I'd say an old London bus had been parked there!
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Trivia - RT3187 Traksy Code?
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CarrotPie
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Probably form RT3187, relating to signal engineering work. More info here: https://www.rssb.co.uk/standards-catalogue/CatalogueItem/Form-RT3187-06-07.
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Further to carrot's reply, when seen in a Train Describer berth, it's main use is to remind signallers
that a loop or siding is unable to be used to to recess/dump trains that have failed.
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Deepgreen
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Thanks both!
Main use is to remind Signallers. It also tells other staff, such as controllers, looking at train describers something to save a phonecall.
Just because the information is in the public domain, doesn't necessarily mean that its meant for the public to understand. Bit like your medical records. They're meant for doctors to understand, and although the patients can look at them, the patients aren't meant or expected to understand them
Slightly different because these days, patients have a right to know what their medical records mean, but rail passengers do not have any absolute or even inferred right to see data codes that are part of the internal workings of the railway.