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Traffic does back up for a fair distance either side of the crossing.

There was a campaign of knocking them down a few years ago, but some have escaped?

The rail is first marked and then checked weekly by the patrolman. We select a sleeper and draw a line across the sleeper, up and over the top of the rail and then continue along the sleeper. This monitors longitudal movement. Then we draw lines alongside the foot of the rail on both sides...

We now mark rails in the four foot by putting a line of chalk/wax connecting the rail and a fixed location, such as a sleeper. This helps us monitor movement.

Sometimes you get stock balancing moves. This is normally when a problem on the network means trains finish in the wrong place and have to be moved around to form the formations needed for the morning services, in the right location. You'll also get defective trains moved from remote...

Serviced and refilled every 6 weeks.

A Super Red is an 1/8th Mile of very poor Track Geometry, namely top faults such as twists and combinations of cyclic tops. You'd need to see the trace from a Track Recording Vehicle to understand, Hydro is your man for that, failing that, a bloke called Old Timer. It's covered in TRK001...

Didn't they have a serious fire a few years ago?

Had my LOWS course for Lookout and COSS binned. Alot of people complained about it being heavy and over sensitive?

Chaps and Chapesses. I am writting this because i am enraged by an article shown to me in the Modern Railways magazine of May 2011. It seems to lay the blame for RCF squarely on the shoulders of the Siemens Desiro. I'm not fan of the unit by a long way, but that's because i'm sad and...

The Holyborne tanks have been running via the Pompey direct for the past three or four years. They go up to Guildford, through Ash and Aldershot, down to Alton, run round, back to Holyborne propel into the oil terminal.

I know plenty of ex apprentices who are now Track Operatives {Trackmen} {Plate Layers}

Weak Field is the electrical equivalent of Overdrive.

That would be why i have two Trackmen who are ex apprentices?

To be honest i don't know what the debate is about. NR is currently underwritten by the Government, but as the biggest source of embarssment, they are moving at a rapid pace to Re-Privatise it. Here's to First Network Rail, Stagecoach Network Rail, Virgin West Coast Mainline Network Rail and...

Having restructured the company to exactly the number of employees required at each depot in order to carry out the maintenance, where do they intend to keep putting 200 apprentices each year? As Hydro has already mentioned, the apprenticeship is very much what you make it. I've seen too...

Which stressing kit do you prefer? Geismar {New type} or Permaquip {old type} I prefer the Permaquip kit for it's simple construction and simple operation. I have witnessed a 'Near miss' with the Geismar equipment and that made up my mind that it's dangerous. I've heard stories of the...

Sorry, i forgot we were talking about Greyhounds.

The controller position had no direct control over the unit's power output. Selecting notch 4 from a stand merely allowed the camshaft to rotate as soon as the CLR triggered it, rather staying in a set motor configuration such as Series or Notch 2 beyond the normal setup point.Being in notch 4...

An electrical jumper is plugged into a socket on the motor coach and acts as a third rail supply. This is connected to an overhead trolley wire system. The supply is first isolated and the jumper inserted. The Designated Person will then energise the overhead wires and the unit will got...