Earls Court EB Island Signals - again

EC5, REC7 and EC11 - the e/b platform starters. Their current shelf-mounted personas will be replaced with side-mounted tunnel-type personas. IIRC EC5 and REC7 have been replaced with the new signals bagged off, but EC11 has not yet been replaced.

its EC6 by the way as 5 refers to the points from west ken to platform 2

they are all wired up and ready to go just never been commissioned these have been like this now for approx 2 years but to the reason why god knows as EC6 (plat 1) and EC 11 signals at the moment do not get maintained every 6 weeks as they have a prohibation notice on them still due to the dangerous structure they are on. to maintain them requires a special zip tower (like a scaffold tpwer) to be erected and there is lots of health and safety rules put into place but i know none of the t/o's (aet's) from earls court do any work on them

those on the job please refer to a traffic circular and under the prohibations look for D109J i think thats what it is off the top of my head ;D ;D ;D

I've asked around and noboby has the answer - there is possibly one man who will know the answer, but he's on annual leave at the moment and returns when I start mine

Unless someone else finds out first, I will keep asking - someone has to know and i'm determined to find them ;D ;D

the actual signal heads are in place i know for platform 1 not quite sure for platform 2 and all the necessary wiring is in place as i was working on EC6 last wednesday and thursday night (yes my fault for the delays on thursday morning) so i dont see what the problem is it must of been granted by the drawing office and the chief signalling engineer or otherwise it would of not got even that far the only thing it needs to actually work is to put the lamps in the lamp holders and then they will work

Without a design? Oh no, they won't do that. They're too scared and then the work isn't being done in a controlled manner.

Without Assurance? No-one will let us.

And what is to say the old cables are in an acceptable state to be re-used, let alone if they are legally allowed to be?

So the required things are:
WPE Submission (Works Plant and Equipment - Sumission to HMRI), Project Assurance Plan, Safety Review and Change Control, Conceptual Design Statement (per discipline), Concept Submission (to all Asset Engineers), Compliance Submission, (And Asset Engineer Sign-off) Correlation, Detailed Design (Earl's Court is a lead covered cable site and these signals would need to be run in Concentric so the issue of keeping the NX intact becomes an issue, the trainstops probably would need rewiring as well. I've just had a design for Harrow on the Hill approved where we had to do just that), Civils enabling works, lead time on materials, resources to do the work, Human Factors assessment for the new positions, signal sighting committees, finding a Principles Tester and Tester in Charge to test it, etc etc.

BTW, the detailed design must be issued within six months of the correlation being completed, otherwise the correlation data is viewed as out of date and must be redone.

Once you take into account the need for a Project Manager, Project Engineer (for the Assurance) and a Planner, and you can see why these sorts of things take the time they do. They are not five minute jobs.

As for why the job has stopped, I don't know, but I do know who was working on it.