northernrailer
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Most trains are now fitted with CCTV and it got me thinking as to how they were used and operated. Some of the services i have travelled on get lots of School children using them and they run riot around the train and even on the stations when they are waiting.
Lets use 156401 as an example:
1) This unit has two carriages, so is there 1 or 2 recording boxes and how much footage can it film before it becomes overwritten?
2) Say whilst 156401 is in service, can someone at EMT log into the units CCTV and watch it in real time (or LIVE as it were), or do they have to wait until the unit gets back to depot for the CCTV to be downloaded.
3) Does CCTV ever get watched or spot checked, or does someone only check the units CCTV if there has been a reported incident on that unit.
4) On EMT units they have a forward and backward facing camera on the 2nd mans side of the cab, when the unit is in service do both cab cameras record or is it just the leading cab.
5) Say the unit has been idling at a station and the engines shut themselves down, does the cctv stop working until the train is started up again?
Lets use 156401 as an example:
1) This unit has two carriages, so is there 1 or 2 recording boxes and how much footage can it film before it becomes overwritten?
2) Say whilst 156401 is in service, can someone at EMT log into the units CCTV and watch it in real time (or LIVE as it were), or do they have to wait until the unit gets back to depot for the CCTV to be downloaded.
3) Does CCTV ever get watched or spot checked, or does someone only check the units CCTV if there has been a reported incident on that unit.
4) On EMT units they have a forward and backward facing camera on the 2nd mans side of the cab, when the unit is in service do both cab cameras record or is it just the leading cab.
5) Say the unit has been idling at a station and the engines shut themselves down, does the cctv stop working until the train is started up again?