Working On It - Signalman
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2023
- It’s time for the next episode in our brand new series ‘Working On It’! This week it’s the turn of our cameraman Rich to step into the limelight as he becomes a signalman’s apprentice for the day!
Being Irish myself and living in the U.K. (Manchester) 23 years, my late grandfather on my Dad’s side was an engineer on the Irish CIE Railway Works in Inchicore near Dublin Hueston and lived alongside the main Dublin Connolly-Sligo line between Coolemine Level Crossing and Clonsilla Station near Dublin - I really believe that these historical, heritage and vintage railways here in the U.K. must be preserved and maintained for future generations, especially in these days of climate change - when travelling home to Ireland myself, as an alternative to flying and air travel, I use SailRail between Manchester Piccadilly, Chester and Holyhead in North Wales to Dublin - and I am delighted to see that so many historical railways in Wales are being lovingly preserved and maintained - I hear also that there are plans to reopen many previously closed Irish railways, such as the Mullingar to Athlone railway or the Kingscourt to Drogheda railway via Navan, as well as the Dublin to Navan railway
As a retired Network Rail signaller having worked similar size and larger boxes in and around Horsham between 2002 and 2014 I like to see good videos made of the operation of similar ones on preserved lines as they NR ones gradually disappear. I enjoyed this video, it was beautifully shot with good explanation for the uninitiated. For the geeks&nerds now: when I first started in 2002/3, like Adrian, we just sent 2-1 for Train Out Of Section quite happily for a year or so until someone found out and we were instructed to follow the Rule Book and send Call Attention (one bell, repeated back) first. We all got shirty and our union rep told the management that it was Southern Region custom and practice to omit the Call Attention as it was quicker and less confusing when grouping a series of bell codes together. That was all to no avail and the heavy hand of the National Signalling Dept came down upon us... You WILL send Call Attention before sending TOS! I had to smile quietly to myself when Adrian, in a Southern Railway / Region box, just banged in 2-1 without thinking about it - hurrah!
Back in the mid 60s ( my first box) Crystal Palace, we only had to use the call attention when offering the train on.....none of us did unless the Station Master was making his daily visit.
If he turned up unexpectedly we had no time to inform the boxes either side, so we would learn back on the bell and hold that position while talking to him which was an indication someone was in the box with us😂
I always wondered how comes "train entering section" didn't require call attention, while "train out of section" did, personally(!)
Richard did a stellar presentation! I especially liked the quote from the late Jerry Springer.
Every video you produce is excellent! The complexity of signaling and switching is an amazing-part of the unseen workings of the railway people don't see. I would enjoy a video on the intricacies of maintaining it.
Funny enough my uncle has not long ago retired from network rail up in Cumbria,from a life long service as a single man.. seeing many famous trains go past his signal box over the years such as the flying scotsman ,nigel gresley , and the mallard , i’ve got some fond memories of visiting him in his signal box and having a cup of tea whilst enjoying the warmth from the lovely coal fire and then watching some rail stock thunder by waving at the driver as they thundered past on there way up to Whitehaven and etc lovely memories
Great video, as usual. Very informative and entertaining.
Brilliant! If I was ever to volunteer, signalman would definitely be my end goal
Love the change of roles for this video as well
Excellent video, really informative and interesting!
Thoroughly enjoyed this 👍 thanks
Lovely video!
Wonderful....thank you one and all..
Excellent video.
A fantastic video!
Great stuff. I recently retired as a Guard from Sydney Trains NSW, i like how your assessments are done on a 2 year cycle, we were assessed in job competency every 12 months plus we had "Compliance Officers " who would carry out random checks of knowledge , if we carried the full load of equipment and use of the equipment, forms etc.
I’m so enjoying these videos, the ‘working on it series’, is inspired! Very well done indeed ❗️👍🏻😀
Excellent work👏👏There's so much more fascinating work to running a railroad than what goes on around the footplate, really enjoy you featuring it in depth.
Brilliant!
Adrian is the The SIGNALMAN.
What a great video and Adrian was fantastic 👏🏻
Aah, the levers of power 😊
In the past wagons very much second class objects on perserved railways,indeed for a time they were apositive eyesores rotting and looking terrible . This group was formed and the transformation they have been responsible for has been remarkable. Everyone involved should be proud how the wagons have become such a. Important part of the railway!
Tip for the next time you pull on any lever.....squeeze the trigger, and once the lever is free, release the trigger, then you can hold and pull the lever to its full extent without it flying back. Many a time when I was training to be a signalman (Crystal Palace) I released the trigger when trying to secure the lever in the reverse and it caught me off guard and flew back. If that happened on the section signal, you had a right old rigamarole , having to cancel and re-offer the train to get a release on the signal😂
PS.......that was on dual line, not single line working, and the instruments were different.....in my case "Sykes two position" block instrument.
I shouldn't really, but I always have to laugh at how a novice pulls off and puts back. So delicate, so careful, and with no idea how to use the cloth. When you're passed out to work alone, and you're busy, the levers get really thrown around, and any reversed signal lever with it's signal a long way from the box and hence difficult to pull, well... just bash the trigger at the top, remove hand swiftly, and let the signal pull the lever back into the normal position!
Alternative to going through getting a release with Sykes two position if that happened, was to whack the instrument shelf with a hammer, that was enough to get the release....... highly illegal tho'😉 the ancient Mark's on the shelf saw that it had happened many times over the years!
Adrian. Top geezer!
Great video. 👍
Thanks for the video - thoroughly enjoyable.
I have a question. Which version of bell codes do you use? The modern (post-2003) Network Rail code or a more historic, railway-specific set of codes?
I think they use the more historic BR ones, as it is easier given they have more loco hauled trains rather than the DMUs and EMUs the bells are based around today. When I was invited into the box at Bishops Lydeard over on the WSR they were using the 1960 codes, and I imagine the Mid Hants are the same. I have also reviewed the online copies of both the 2003 and 1960 bell codes and as far as I can tell they are using the older style, but I could still be wrong.
Hope that helps
@@BrokenIET It does. Cheers!
Yes, they're based on the 1960s ones, though with a couple of additions to suit our needs, such as extra codes for trains to and from NR though Alton.
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If I may ask, how's No.34007 doing? Has the exam for her overhaul been completed yet?
9:30Bit of a discrepancy between the clocks there
lol, thats why we have iphones haha.
Perhaps one is GMT and one is local time?