Jobs in the rail industry if colourblind

[Rail Blues]

I was moaning at work about poor pay, short-term contracts and unreasonable expectations in the field I'm in (academia). Obviously sick of my moaning a colleague pointed out, you're always going on about trains, why don't you work for the railways?

In normal situations I'd have jumped at the chance but I'm red/green colourblind which obviously knocks out anything safety critical, but is there a total ban on doing anything if you're colourblind?

I'm part curious and part looking for a plan B, C and D, as between Brexit, Covid and the shift to online marking, prospects for a history lecturer are about as bleak as a gas lamplighter.

 

[irish_rail]

There are plenty of jobs you can do im pretty sure there is no colour blind ban provided you are not in a safety critical role.
So driver , guard , dispatcher, shunter, signaller all out but pretty much anything else I'd say you'd be fine for.

 

[Ianno87]

Isn't it the case that on one London Underground line, a recent resignalling means drivers on that line *can* be colourblind, as colour differentiation is no longer necessary.

Edit: Depending on your academic background, timetable planning could be up your street, which do-able with colourblindness.

 

[Rail Blues]

Isn't it the case that on one London Underground line, a recent resignalling means drivers on that line *can* be colourblind, as colour differentiation is no longer necessary.

Edit: Depending on your academic background, timetable planning could be up your street, which do-able with colourblindness.

Thanks, I didn't know that about LU! I'm a historian by training and generally we couldn't plan our way out of a paper bag alas!!!! We could contextualise the bags history, but that's not much use.

 

[Rail Blues]

There are plenty of jobs you can do im pretty sure there is no colour blind ban provided you are not in a safety critical role.
So driver , guard , dispatcher, shunter, signaller all out but pretty much anything else I'd say you'd be fine for.

More than I thought! Thanks for this.