@@Kaikaiblogs Or hijacking it. Imagine a terrrist hijacking a petroleum fuels or chemical freight train, unaliving the driver, and driving it on its regular planned route in North-West London, and along the way, stopping just outside Wembley Stadium on a matchday.....
@@AyYi-tn1th - Train drivers are paid well - not for the physical act of pushing and pulling a PBC lever but for their vast route knowledge. People don't realize that in the UK, there are no milepost signs as they have in Germany for example. A typical Newcastle-based LNER driver knows the position of every signal, speed limit, junction, level crossing and bridge from Newcastle to King's X. They will also know the breaking points for every station they stop at. Oh and they obviously have to learn every route in *both* directions! That's 2x 245 miles of knowing every foot of that track by memory. Add to that that some drivers are signed on multiple routes. My colleagure is signed on 5 major routes; with both directions, that's a combined route knowledge of 1,280 miles! For your second question; drivers have to hold down a foot pedal called a DVD while driving. If they do not touch the controls for 60 seconds, an alarm will sound and they need to briefly take their foot off the DVD pedeal then put it back down. This is the driver vigilence device. If they do not reset it by lifting and returning their foot, then yes the emegency brakes will be applied.
@@TKCT2024yes and it also advises drivers of when and what the next speed limit is in miles. I believe it also shows what the next station is and uses GPS to tell the driver where the next station is. Don’t take my word for that because im not completely familiar with DAS. I’m more familiar with ATO and ETCS than systems like DAS and TVM
I’m pretty sure at high speeds that is a safety violation to not have your hands on the controls. Network Rail and British Rail safety, you must keep your hands on the controls at all times
@@ALEXJACKSONOFFICIAL202 Then you react quickly by putting your hand back on and braking. It’s not as fine margins as with a car so you can let go off it. If it’s a real emergency, you’d be whacking the plunger anyway
That’s the AWS button. Everytime you pass an AWS magnet which are active when the signal is not showing green (i.e. double yellow, yellow and red) and also on the approach to large reductions in speed or temporary speed restrictions, an audible warning is heard and the driver has approx 3 seconds to “cancel the AWS” by pressing the yellow button.
How train driver knows when to decreasing the speed, because there are many stations. I really wanna know how they could remember them or they have gps?
I once saw a documentary, and they said that the drivers know the routes like the back of their hands. It's like making a long-distance car journey a few times, and you remember the speed of the road, place names, and landmarks.
