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  1. Old-School

    FGW - Line blocked between Castle Cary & Taunton

    How about this displayed at every level crossing..... Thought for the day "You may be in a hurry. You may use a level crossing every day. You may even think you know when the train is coming. But if you risk misusing level crossings then you're putting your life, and your family's, as well as...
  2. Old-School

    FGW - Line blocked between Castle Cary & Taunton

    Firstly to state my thoughts are with all those that were involved. I'm not implying this is a case of level crossing misuse by the motorist who was killed in today's incident, as most of us don't have the facts of what actually happened and can only speculate or believe what the media report...
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    Where shall I move to??

    Hi Londonwall, As a Driver for Southern, I can advise that in regards to Epsom and Caterham Depots, these two are small depots with only about a dozen drivers at each and trainee driver vacancies are very seldom advertised, I haven't heard of any in the last 5 years for Epsom or Caterham...
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    E.c.s

    I believe LOROL use Class 9 headcodes instead of Class 2 headcodes to prevent confusion to Signallers as to which service it is, for example a Lorol service from Dalston Junction to West Croydon (9Cxx) prevented from being confused for a Southern service from London Bridge to Horsham (2Cxx) both...
  5. Old-School

    Line Nicknames

    London Victoria to London Bridge via Peckham Rye (inner South London Lines) known as The Atlantic Lines
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    Water Water Everywhere...!!

    The following criteria (rules taken from RSSB Rule Book) comes into play during flooding i) Up to the bottom of the rail head normal working. ii) Up to the top of the rail head maximum speed 5 mph. iii) Above the top of the rail head movements only permitted by instructions from...
  7. Old-School

    Southern Looking for Trainee Train Drivers - Selhurst

    The Jpg file shows a sample of the drivers' Rota. Shift lengths can vary from 6hrs 43mins to 9hrs 28mins There is a good chance that finding a driver to swap with would be reasonably easy.
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    Southern Looking for Trainee Train Drivers - Selhurst

    The two salaries given in the advert for trainee driver for Southern would both apply to trainee driver as the lowest salary is when starting the trainee driver course and the higher salary once the first exam (known as formative 1) has been passed if my memory serves me correctly as its been a...
  9. Old-School

    General Knowledge Quiz

    Michael Caine is correct, would of also accepted his real name (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) as well
  10. Old-School

    General Knowledge Quiz

    Neither of those I'm afraid
  11. Old-School

    General Knowledge Quiz

    Only 2 actors have ever been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade between the 1960s and 2000s, Jack Nicholson was one, who was the other?
  12. Old-School

    End of the station's word!

    Yatton
  13. Old-School

    Guess the Station...

    Sanderstead
  14. Old-School

    Railway General Knowledge.

    possibly Linseed oil could have been used in tail-lamps placed on rear of last wagon in train.
  15. Old-School

    General Knowledge Quiz

    Saturn
  16. Old-School

    Station association

    Cromford Another station which had also suffered from many years of neglect.
  17. Old-School

    The next station is...!

    Fauldhouse
  18. Old-School

    The Transport Game

    Tiredness is catching up with us so for a couple of hours Nap-Time we board the 07:48 FGW service from St Austell to Westbury (Wilts) arriving at 10:59 Saturday.
  19. Old-School

    Initial training for a train driver

    May I also add a little advice that if anyone is thinking of reading up on the online rule book, please bear in mind that the rule book gets amendments on a regular basis which are printed in two Network Rail Publications: Weekly Operating Notice and Periodical Operating Notice, as far as I am...
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    if I was correct, then open floor

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