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Yep, this! We've had many damaged pantographs when birds have struck them, resulting in auto drop activations (ADD) and the resulting delay can be considerable. Had a manager conducting one of their regular assessments last week and a large flock of birds lift off and make their way over...

Yes, I transferred over from another London TOC. It's not a case of you've had this incident 10 years ago so it's an automatic rejection, but rather a 5 year clear SOL record from whenever that incident was. Isn't this common across a lot of companies nowadays? I know this because a few of us...

I don't decide the criteria. As I understand it it was set almost ten years ago when a number of incidents were investigated and it was found that a couple of drivers they'd taken on had poor safety of the line records at their previous TOC. From then on they mandated clean records. However I...

Internal chatter suggests they want a number of qualified drivers because the training demand can't be met with apprentices alone. Just waiting for the DfT to give them the nod, but good luck either way! It'll likely be the usual caveats from when they last took qualified drivers, clean record...

Call my cynical, but on paper I'm sure it will work very well but cue real world issues I see nearly every day such as ARS/DRS conflicts, priority given to 9Jxx/9Sxx at the southern end of the route if you or they are even slightly out of path. An increasing number of 'Up' 1Txx Kings Lynn-Kings...

Wasn't issued from Woking in this case and I certainly don't want the wrong station/team to be dragged into anything! It happened at a different, large station quite far away in this case. I have since discussed it with colleagues and some report having similar issues at Paddington and Waterloo...

Will do. I've received an auto response saying it could take up to four days to message back. Initially tried their phone lines, but it kept me on hold with the usual "we are experiencing a high volume of calls..." I've done various jobs within the railway before settling down in my current...

Thank you all for clarifying. I was almost certain that I wasn't asking them to do anything outside the scope of what I was entitled to and was concerned that I missed an important rule change. In this case I wasn't travelling immediately but did miss the train home that I was aiming for. I...

Hi all, Had what I felt was an unusual experience an SWR station and I'd be interested in knowing who is in the right here. I asked for a ticket from Woking to Stansted Airport on my PRIV and was bluntly and dismissively given a 'no.' Initially thought it was a bit of staff-staff banter but...

Can't speak for all the other drivers, but just what I've observed in the past four or so years. Not sure how NT conditions differ but I believe it's split depending on where you're based. Business divided into East and West and the conditions between the two differ. The biggest one that's often...

Meh, have done both types and intercity isn't the golden goose many believe it to be. We've even had one guy leave within his PQA because it wasn't anything like what he expected. Folk get very bored quite quickly nowadays more than I've ever known before. Yes, LNER pays more but Northern...

For use of company mobile within permitted reasons, it's DRA set, brakes in full service, master switch to neutral and out of drivers seat. We've had mobile devices (iPad) in the cab for at least seven years, so the policy was rewritten to allow for their (limited) use.

Wouldn't speak for everyone in this case. Certainly is the case with a personal phone, but our company policy contains a clause that supersedes the rulebook. Use of company issued phone is permitted when train is secure, GSM-R unavailable and used in line with duties. Have previously stated in...

Yep, and I doubt it would have been smiles and pats on the back in those situations either. With the amount of assessments and competency cycles a driver manager carries out every year, you'd expect them to know and apply the rules so expertly that they set the standard that the rest of us...

Er, because you've failed to follow a process that you're trained to carry out?

Internal discussions suggest that a very senior manager was driving and attempts are being made to keep the reasons behind the dewirement under wraps. What has got out is that the 80x pan was not in the correct configuration and an attempt was made to change them over on the move, while...

I've worked at two fully guarded TOCs and most guards and I happily agree to take it in turns to do PA announcements during major disruption. Those guards have gone on to say how they like the driver reinforcing what the guard has said and when passengers hear the issue from more than one person...

The approach to platform 1 and 2 from the up fast at Peterborough does include the use of flashing yellows. As stated in a recent post, it all depends on when the route is set relative to the inhibition point. Had it myself last week! The distance between P468 and the initial 30mph turnout...

Nope. Greens only apply if routed towards P440. louis97's interpretation in post #43 is correct. The flashing yellow aspects apply to the initial 30mph turnout instead of one specific platform. Contrary to my experience with every other flashing yellow sequence, in this case it doesn't...

Apologies in advance if not talking about the same thing, but if running on green signals on the approach to Peterborough on the up fast then the AWS magnet that is associated with the 30mph points will be supressed. If you're approaching under any other circumstance (yellows or at danger) then...