Signal berth codes?

[Cbritten9]

I was on Traksy while i was tracking a train and on the signal berth after Sandwich platform 2 there was "TEST" it disappeared just after, not sure what it means. Another code i'm wondering what it is this:
"RUST" "TREE". Its always there when i check it but if anyone knows what it means thank would be great

 

[skyhigh]

This has come up quite a few times previously - essentially there is no set meaning, it's just used by individual signallers as a reminder of something.

Rust generally means a line hasn't been used for a while - i.e. rusty rails.
'BLOC TREE' suggests the line there is blocked by a tree.
'TEST' could mean all sorts of things, perhaps there are staff working on the line testing something.

 

[Freightmaster]

"TREE". Its always there when i check it but if anyone knows what it means thank would be great

Here you go:

Tree - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Seriously, as 'skyhigh' said, these descriptors are mainly used as reminders
for signallers that a line not available - they can put in anything that they
want to - as long as their fellow signallers know what the code refers to.



MARK

 

[norbitonflyer]

If the line hasn't been used for a while, it could mean the track is actually obstructed by a tree

 

[Somewhere]

Here you go:

Tree - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Seriously, as 'skyhigh' said, these descriptors are mainly used as reminders
for signallers that a line not available - they can put in anything that they
want to - as long as their fellow signallers know what the code refers to.



MARK

This forum requires like and laughing buttons, to prevent threads being swelled by other posters responding

 

[IanXC]

GONE is always a favourite of mine...

 

[High Dyke]

I tend to use 'TEST' when showing trainees how to input manual signal berths. Unfortunately, I can't seem to follow up with the word 'tickle'.

 

[185]

In South Yorkshire, it is not uncommon to see WATR FLUD BOAT and SHIP.

Surprised the West Coast Mainline doesn't have OOPS, FZZT and BANG more often.

 

[Horizon22]

Signallers can technically write anything of a 4 character length in a berth code. Obviously whether they should is a different matter...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I tend to use 'TEST' when showing trainees how to input manual signal berths. Unfortunately, I can't seem to follow up with the word 'tickle'.

TKLE should do for that...?!

 

[nw-sparks]

I recorded this one a few years ago:

 

[Class15]

The recently reopened locomotive holding sidings next to Wembley Central station used to have some quite funny messages when they were shut.

 

[BrummieBobby]

I entered
*HO*
*HO*
*HO*
APPY
XMAS

in the berths around Bescot a few years back

 

[High Dyke]

TKLE should do for that...?!

Good thinking there.

During a recent incident, off my area, I put STOP in a particular berth to remind me not to send any trains that way. A colleague next door spotted it.

 

[rower40]

"SNOW" "GO--" in the Kirkstall Loops this morning. Can't post a pic due to my poor IT skillz.
This meant that 6D71 had to run early through Leeds, with a bit of impact on trains from Hull and York.

 

[PM77]

"TEST" can also be used if there is an issue with headcodes transposing between workstations/panels etc. Rather than wait for a unit, the signaller can transpose the test headcode to see if it also appears on the adjoining display. In areas with ARS, if you used an actual headcode it could confuse the system into thinking an actual unit had appeared.

 

[sh24]

SH7T for a poorly IET dumped at Newton Abbott

 

[muz379]

I was on Traksy while i was tracking a train and on the signal berth after Sandwich platform 2 there was "TEST" it disappeared just after, not sure what it means. Another code i'm wondering what it is this:
"RUST" "TREE". Its always there when i check it but if anyone knows what it means thank would be great
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Rust generally is used if you need to follow rules related to a "Line not used for a considerable time" as rust can prevent a track circuit from working correctly . You will quite often see 1TRN following engineering work as well when the signaller needs to observe specific rules relating to the first train through a portion of line .

BLOC-TREE could mean a tree is blocking the line , or it could be obscuring a signal sighting . Those are there primarilly as a reminder to the signaller . But they might also give siganllers at adjacent boxes or staff in control an idea of what is going on .

 

[ajwffc]

have had my name used for a possession before

 

[Annetts key]

“TEST” is also used by signalling technicians when testing the train describer equipment. Other test messages may also be used, especially if the signal box / signalling centre / PSB uses displays that are not VDU CRT/LCD types.

 

[rower40]

"3187" often refers to lines taken out-of-use by a signalling possession or disconnection, since it requires form RT3187 to be completed.
Bradford Forster Square platform zero is a current example of this.

 

[zwk500]

See also this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/train-describer-messages.166204/

Other messages have been mentioned in specific contexts, such as a GWR Flooding incident getting 'SEND RNLI' at Chipping Sodbury, but I couldn't find every thread! I think there's other threads on specific topics like Christmas and engineering works.

 

[tumbledown]

From Traksy today: perhaps points scotched? It cleared after 6Z20 went through.

 

[ainsworth74]

Other messages have been mentioned in specific contexts, such as a GWR Flooding incident getting 'SEND RNLI' at Chipping Sodbury, but I couldn't find every thread!

Sadly lost to the sands of time but I was once at Sheffield when the service collapsed northbound as there was engineering diversions and one of the trains ran through the points on the diversionary route blocking the railway totally. Eventually the signaller must have gotten quite frustrated with their in ability to run anything north of Sheffield as in a couple of spare signalling berths appeared the message 'HELP -ME-'

As a passenger who wanted to go north at that time I could only conclude we were really all in it together whether passenger or signaller

 

[zwk500]

From Traksy today: perhaps points scotched? It cleared after 6Z20 went through.

Could be, or was a reminder who was the Person In Charge of the sidings at that time.

 

[Mat17]

I noted yesterday that the loops near Brightside said SNOW, assuming this was due to them being covered in snow. Which then lends the question of why the Deepcar branch stated POO.

It seems to have been changed since.

 

[tumbledown]

Could be, or was a reminder who was the Person In Charge of the sidings at that time.

Ah, more likely given the attached. Fame at last...

 

[IanXC]

Sadly lost to the sands of time but I was once at Sheffield when the service collapsed northbound as there was engineering diversions and one of the trains ran through the points on the diversionary route blocking the railway totally. Eventually the signaller must have gotten quite frustrated with their in ability to run anything north of Sheffield as in a couple of spare signalling berths appeared the message 'HELP -ME-'

As a passenger who wanted to go north at that time I could only conclude we were really all in it together whether passenger or signaller

This one?

 

[ainsworth74]

This one?

Yes! That's the one! Well dug out from somewhere or other!

I believe I was on 1S53 from memory waiting for it to depart before we got chucked off and had to go get a replacement bus.

 

[Mat17]

It's back. Does this actually stand for something?