If anyone is wondering the music used in some of these training films has been identified is from BOS 161 Contemporary Jingles & Themes: The Need To Fly some library music from Bosworth Backgrounds and can be listened to online.
4:04 Lets watch the whole process again on a second train, good, I didn't catch it all the first time but wait, the Flagman is now waiting on the Signalman to phone???
I have always been fascinated with the ‘post train’ as I call it, I think it is very unique, the fact it sounds and is basically a 319 and has a networker cab and front. I get to see it almost daily and it’s always a nice sight, the big crimson machine.
I'd have done the exam on the wrong unit anyway. Better to do it too often than not often enough. Especially if they have "nothing to do". I would still have done the frantic phone calls to get the right one.
Doing that sort of thing in the dark on a rainy night in the middle of nowhere with (hopefully isolated) conductor rails nearby. No thanks. An old EPB driver told me that some drivers would partly pull out a fuse in the cab cupboard and use the arc to light their cigarette!
l once did a brake test on a 4 car VEP coupled on to an 8 Car VEP !! I was in the front cab of the rear unit . Buzzed up the Driver for an EPB test , he does it I see the EPB gauges move . EPB test done . l buzz him to do the auto brake test . He says Go head . I did it and he said "No nothing happened here .Do it again !" i do same thing again " Nothing this end. No indication on the Auto !". The shunter hadn't opened the cocks between the two units when coupling the two units pipes together ! Had the Driver gone out on Auto Brake the back unit would have been a swinger !!! UNBRAKED !! So glad l insisted on a brake test that day and always did from that day onwards !! Alot of Drivers tried to rush you on empties " oh we don't need a Brake test !" Especially late a night ! I had a big row with a Driver one night he said " we don't need bother with brake test" on a 12 car ECS ..I said yes we are having a brake test !
3:15 i do know this can happen to anyone and not dissing any driver that it happens to , every fiber of my body is squirming having performed other messier approaches or that bloody 'fast curve' just north/northwest next to the bridge at strathenam common >w<
I set myself a task of watching all the cab ride footage in the UK on RU-vid several years ago, so, after watching it here, I have to watch the very same footage uploaded by one ElectrostarGeorge. Better than usual: Network Rail are only about 1000 years out with their copyright advisory.
How amusing, when you realise we used to hack up and down a four track mainline with steam hauled express trains at up to a 100mph, without even AWS. (Waterloo - Bournemouth until 1967) Indeed even with 90mph EMU'S the London-Brighton line (& others) didn't get fitted with AWS until the late 1970's. And these were some of the busiest lines in Britain !!!
TODAY'S REALITY !!! Great idea, except that in more recent years passenger "Train Operating Company" Drivers are no longer allowed to rectify faults. Because they are driving a train that belongs to a different company. One of the three "Train Owning Companies" who don't want other companies staff touching their equipment. Hence when a minor fault such as a faulty sliding door occurs, the whole train may simply have to be taken out of service, inconveniencing passengers.
