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Ask your LOM for a cab pass.

It's useful to have a train waiting at a signal out of the station, as it can move as soon as it gets the signal. If it waits in the station, once it gets the signal it has to go through the dispatch procedure, causing additional delay.

Presumably, Sunak wanted some good news alongside the cancellation of HS2 phase 2, so brought in Andrew Gilligan and his crayon.

No, they won't make any sense to you now.

Performance related pay, i.e. bonus

You could start straight at block school or have some time doing other things first; it varies. It could be a while. If your contract is for a box then that's where you'll be, unless you're on the relief. Block school location is decided on both availability and distance. That is where your...

Not available means the person has declined overtime for that day.

Rest day not available Booked off - Paid as part of 35 hour week but not required to come in (usually on Bank Holidays, or to avoid breaking Hidden) Conference? RDW is rest day worked Sunday not available

This also reminds me of Ladbroke Grove. As well as the poor training of a new driver, in both incidents the driver believed the signal was showing a different indication, even though the signal indications were visible for a significant length of time after forming this belief.

This is not uncommon. As mentioned above, note it, fault it, telephone for emergencies and mention it to your relief.

Suggested or requested maybe, but signallers are responsible for regulation. If the signaller could show that their decision minimised overall delay, or otherwise followed the regulating policy, they wouldn't get the delay.

I'm intrigued as well. Anything that needs it gets signal protection. Forgetting to speak to a driver results in a delay at worst.

Many signallers are wary of using berth triggered broadcasts as there is no way of ensuring that the driver has correctly understood the message. They may acknowledge the broadcast, but believe they heard something different to what the signaller intended. With conventional communication, this...

'Fire and rehire', although they'd be daft to do that; most railway staff are either able to retire now or have a previous career or qualification to fall back on.

Well, 'over 100 trains' is correct! During the day, in an hour there is, or should be, in each direction: Liverpool-Newcastle TPE Manchester-Redcar TPE South West-Scotland XC Leeds-York Northern Blackpool-York Northern Hull-York Northern Approx one freight plus the occasional...

Kings Cross PSB was a power box, and so did not have ARS (the Moorgate branch had some kind of automatic working though) and the workstations covering the area described above do not have ARS.

It's not. Pensionable pay increases are limited to RPI, and upon promotion, a pension restructuring premium is created for the difference, starting from that date. Essentially it's a career average scheme.

That may be the received wisdom but it's worth considering carefully, at least between CARE and RPS65. They are both career average schemes, and either can give a higher retirement benefit depending on your pay rises, CPI and RPI inflation. Ideally you'd speak to a financial advisor.

I can think of three reasons: They are only allowed for certain situations They are a lot of work to set up Receiving 'acknowledged' is hardly a guarantee of a clear understanding!

Nothing has changed in that regard. The Rule Book explicitly allows signallers to work on points themselves. A Safe System of Work is not required for that. Non-passenger trains don't need mechanical facing points to be clipped. The only difference now is that signallers aren't usually shown...