The train will still be more attractive than your head, unless you happen to have a metal plate in it.
What about when I wear my tin foil hat to work?
The train will still be more attractive than your head, unless you happen to have a metal plate in it.
43066 will have to be plug ugly to be less attractive than a class 70!The train will still be more attractive than your head, unless you happen to have a metal plate in it.
43066 will have to be plug ugly to be less attractive than a class 70!
If you were only pug ugly you would be MORE attractive than a 70!Pug ugly I could have taken, but plug ugly?! That’s just outrageous!
What are "PTS rules"?That's why all trains have an orange line at cant rail that you do not go above. Above that any electrics earth to the train & tracks or you if you go above it. Below it you are less electrically attractive than the train.
Personal Track Safety - it's a qualification that you need to hold before you're allowed to work trackside.What are "PTS rules"?
That explains your certification thread then.Personal Track Safety - it's a qualification that you need to hold before you're allowed to work trackside.
To answer the OP question,
very dangerous if you touch it, potentially fatal.
If you follow your PTS and observe the rules then it won't cause you any bother.
To answer the OP question,
very dangerous if you touch it, potentially fatal.
If you follow your PTS and observe the rules then it won't cause you any bother.
I intend to follow my PTS training, just that making that lethal step causes me bother when you're only inches away.
Surely there's been cases of somebody tripping on it or something similar?
Yes, there have. But it's not a common event, so take care and it's unlikely to be you.Surely there's been cases of somebody tripping on it or something similar?
Teenager Kanwel Butt electrocuted while 'listening' to railway track to see if his delayed train was coming
An inquest heard how in Pakistan people sometimes listen to rails, which are not live, to see when trains are arriving
Tragic teen Kanwel Butt was electrocuted while 'listening' to the railway track to see if his delayed train was coming.
The 17-year-old put his ear to the live rail and was killed instantly.
An inquest today heard how the teenager had moved to England from Pakistan just months earlier and was making his first solo train journey.
In Pakistan people sometimes listen to rails, which are not live, to see if a train is coming.
Investigators examined CCTV footage and discovered Kanwel had already walked across the tracks and back to get to an intercom to ask train staff why his advertised service was not on time.
Still apparently concerned, he then clambered down from the platform again, knelt down and leaned towards the deadly rail, which discharged a massive shock, killing him instantly.
In a police statement read out at the hearing, Kanwel's father, Amjad, said that his son would probably not have known about live rails.
Teenager Kanwel Butt electrocuted while 'listening' to railway track to see if his delayed train was coming
An inquest heard how in Pakistan people sometimes listen to rails, which are not live, to see when trains are arrivingwww.mirror.co.uk
If you are worried about the stride across, sometime when you KNOW the juice is off practice a bit, just striding across it, give you some confidence.
Maybe there is a bit of dummy track somewhere you could use.
did you ever get it wrong on the dummy track because you are far less to do so on the real thing when you are aware of it.Yeah the centre that I trained in had dummy track. When there's no power it's simple. Pressure is a lot more when it's live.
No doubt due to the continued use of the dreaded bullhead rail etc:Back in the early 70's and probably for a long time before, P-way staff carrying out daily routine maintenance (walking the length etc.) on the Euston DC lines did so with trains running and obviously the 3rd and 4th rails live. They had 'insulated tools' and the only injury I recall when I worked on the accidents section was when a man packing ballast touched both the live and running rails with his shovel blade, the resulting short circuit showering him with sparks. As has been said already, contact by clothing (those BR issue long heavy raincoats being the usual culprit) on the DC lines was the most common danger but, unlike contact with the AC, never seemed to be life-threatening.
Possibly the S.R. P-way staff had similar equipment - otherwise, the old, labour intensive, system of daily routine track maintenance would not have been possible without very disruptive isolations.
No doubt due to the continued use of the dreaded bullhead rail etc:
It kind of confuses me why there are not lots of dead animals in the southern region lines.
I asked for assistance at Hither Green in the 80's to get some pictures and a BR guy held my hand whilst I jumped the 3rd rail. Afterwards I kinda felt it was a total unnecessary risk, but I was wondering if the depots have a constant supply of power to the rails considering nothing moves for large periods of time.
It kind of confuses me why there are not lots of dead animals in the southern region lines.
I asked for assistance at Hither Green in the 80's to get some pictures and a BR guy held my hand whilst I jumped the 3rd rail. Afterwards I kinda felt it was a total unnecessary risk, but I was wondering if the depots have a constant supply of power to the rails considering nothing moves for large periods of time.
As mentioned above badgers do appear to fall victim to the juice rail, but others seem to either have a sixth sense, feel the influence of the rail and know to keep clear, or have some inexplicable (to humans) intelligence system that passes on warnings.
If you turned the power on only when needed the workload on those managing the system would be enormous, with many extra posts needed. There would also be delays because sometimes you would have to wait to get the power put on for your train as ‘all our operators are busy at the moment’. And this is in the era of radios and mobiles: think what it would have been like with old line side ‘phones.
And it might breed a casual attitude: “Oh, they don’t use that road. It’s never li-.”