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    Approach Speeds and Speed limits at Stations and Platforms

    Until the first unit slides on ice or oil straight through the buffers. There's a reason professional driving is done the way it is. Yes an amount of it is arse covering and box ticking but a fair bit of it is about giving yourself an "out" if the situation stops developing as you expect...
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    Part of the viaduct at Nine Elms has collapsed.

    There's a video that seems to have been widely shared on social media showing the moment of collapse. It appears to be a rearward CCTV view from a piece of moving plant equipment. The track and ballast has already been lifted. The machine stops as the collapse starts but it's not clear if...
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    Sand Drags

    There must be loads, there's one at Eastleigh, one at Bordesley just randomly off the top of my head.
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    3 aspect distant signal

    There's one on the Down Cherwell Valley line approaching Aynho Junction. I'd assume to do with maintaining braking distance when there are line speed increases.
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    Gsm-r sg button

    Once when I've sat at a booked timing point, having very unusually been allowed to continue to run about 150 miles quite early, and phoned the signaller up to ask that he doesn't give me the road early as a problem had developed that I intended to work through while standing out of the way...
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    Gsm-r sg button

    I don't even know where to begin with that. But in short, no, you don't get heat with the loco shut down. The loco batteries are notoriously feeble and will run flat just with lights on. Cab heating requires electrckery, and lots of it. Never seen a microwave in this country, would be nice...
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    Yellow Hand Signal?

    For context to the above, intermediate signal boxes should display yellow handsignals during single line working, unless they are closed - module P1 3.5
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    Associated Position Light signal movements

    Yeah I wasn't meaning to imply you'd fall into the trap, just make the point that experience had told me to try to forget how the signalling works while actually driving. With regards to my example above, the warning board applies to positions 5 and 6 (though I don't sign the route from...
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    Associated Position Light signal movements

    On another related but differen't example, there's a route where I need to take the slowest diverging route. Because of this, the route is approach controlled. More often than not the route is clear through but you're still coming up to a red before it clears. After the double yellow is an...
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    Associated Position Light signal movements

    This sums it up perfectly for me. As a driver I'm interested in how the signalling works around me but I try, so far as possible, to compartmentalize this so that I just focus on driving to the signals. I might listen to the subtle hints that certain sequences give you as to what may be...
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    Great Western Electrification Progress

    If a 66 with some guage-checked-on-departure boxes has somehow damaged the overhead conductor bar then I suspect you've got a far bigger problem. Far more likely that the damage is related to the introduction of passenger units on 25kV since yesterday.
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    SPAD at Loughborough, 20/3/2020

    I believe some red team locos still have them, whereas all blue and green team locos seem to have had the function of the AFT cock automated such that manual input is no longer required, bar the usual isolation of the E70. With regard to the naming, my memory is that they were previously...
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    Fastest double decker?

    In my limited experience, older is definitely faster as they had less, or no, emissions control equipment and bigger engines. It all hinges on the gearbox though. I can confirm that a Streetlite in whatever guise my former employer ordered is scarily twitchy and sounds like it's almost on the...
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    Duty Cards

    Here's a copy of a diagram a former colleague sent me when he was working in Bournemouth. Quite a long day.
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    Tree on the line at Barnes [BNS] (28/03)

    Leaf it out yew saps! Some treemendous puns though. Calls for Doctor Beeching? Should have called for Doctoring Beech. Nurse! He's out of bed again... Edit: Line reopened about half eleven with some remnants left on platform for later clearing.
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    Salisbury to Romsey blocked by a land slip.

    Trains running through normally today. Not sure when single line working was lifted, I think it was still in place yesterday. I suspect the Salisbury MOMs will be glad to have a break from piloting duties and continually shuttling up and down the A36.
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    Rail Freight Flows and News UK

    With rumours abound of huge decreases (c. 50%) of maritime boxes to be shifted in the upcoming months, it might only be a temporary reprieve for intermodal.
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    Rules query: yellow handsignal at a crossing

    I don't know for a fact that it is - if it is then maybe it is to do with the type of crossing and it's interlocking with the signalling, but here I'm just speculating, I don't know for a fact.
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    Signal sighting on the Up Fylde near Preston

    And yet there are plenty of places where traffic lights could benefit from them but they've not been provided. You soon get to learn where they are and disregard them. There are all manner of lights that can appear as signals at a distance. Older sodium lights in particular have a habit of...
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    Rules query: yellow handsignal at a crossing

    The table is straight out of the rule book and as such as far as drivers are concerned is correct. It quite clearly states that a yellow handsignal will be shown at any controlled crossing protected by signals where the handsignal is shown opposite the protecting signal. This is correct. The...

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