headshot119
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What do the blue and white flags carried by lookouts mean?
thanks Karl
thanks Karl
What do the blue and white flags carried by lookouts mean?
thanks Karl
Emergency toilet paper.
Facetiousness aside,
I remember lookouts working just to the north of Cumbernauld a few weeks ago on a Sunday
Virtually no point as there no passenger trains
Also, I wouldn't have expected any other type of train for the period they were working either!
Emergency toilet paper.
Facetiousness aside, it's for intermediate and distant lookouts to signal back to the site lookout that a train is approaching. Waved in a high, above the head figure of 8 - train approaching, stand clear. Held out horizontally showing a static square flag - all clear, start work again. Waved below the waist in a figure of 8 - work complete, return to site. All signals are repeated between lookouts to signal acknowledgement.
Surely before commencing the work they should have contacted the signallerSo? First rule of PTS is don't use timetables and signals to guess when trains are coming!
I remember lookouts working just to the north of Cumbernauld a few weeks ago on a Sunday
Virtually no point as there no passenger trains
Also, I wouldn't have expected any other type of train for the period they were working either!
The lookout kept waving his flag when the Glasgow - Cumbernauld arrived, but then realised it was not travelling any further
site lookout also uses the chequered flag to acknowledge the warning of approaching trains by intermediate/distant lookouts,and the method of warning to staff is a horn or whistle,where did the horizontal static flag and the waving below the waist and figure of 8 come from??not from the rule book,sounds more like semaphore.