NR technician dropping in. Help!!

Does the SMTH mention the use of air mains [1] and/or M63 points?

[1] older EP installations, in particular?

The lack of a handbook is a problem as we get staff who have been on the 3BL course working to that standard, which is contrary to LUs engineering standards. And for some reason, despite 'Introduction to Engineering Standards' being taught at the beginning of the Technical Officer's course, very few T/O's I've worked with know anything about them or their contents!

(I'm fed up of quoting E7500 and it's sucessors to S&E!)

Some of the kit is similar, such as M63 and Clamplock points, but LU have tended to adopt kit for their own requirements so there are some subtle (and not so subtle) differences. I've got an old set of SMS's somewhere which do make reference to Chairlock points (all 6 ends on NR) and EP machines, so it may not be completely unfamiliar territory.

When I did the 'Tech2S' it was geared more to P-Way ops and signal failures. Quite honesty 'standards' per se were not taught then as they were more applicable to installation than maintenance. I don't know what is different these days since the course became modules but the man who runs the Tube Lines signal school, a former depot colleague of mine with an excellent signalling pedigree, was making lots of changes in terms of what was being taught. Having done my first two years on signal installation back in the 1970s and then spending time in comms installation, the training division for several years and comms installation again before transferring to Picc Line Engineering, 'standards' were something that I had always worked with. I worked on all lines and at many levels and interworked with other departments and disciplines. These days most TOs tend to start on a line and stay with it in a purely maintenance role. I don't think it helped that for a while at least there were two sets of standards i.e. the old standards that InfraCo line engineering was based upon and the new ones being pumped out from CED at LUL.
I would agree that some key standard principles were not emphasised in detail and quite often changes were signified by nothing more than a notice displayed for a short time and then removed to be forgotten about.
In the past there was always a problem with keeping up to date and little formal update training for many except for such things as Clamplocks etc. Much of my knowledge was gained from 'on the job' learning and lots of reading of prints and other drawings in the depot library and on site but many TOs did not seem motivated to do this unless it was to solve a failure.

AFAIK the only place outside LUL/InfraCos to get detailed info on the signalling circuitry is the IRSE although some publications have popped up on Ebay!

DQN 32 was limits of authroity now its in some other document e7**** something

I have known EJW since he was an apprentice in the 1980s. When it came to comms I was his mentor and for signalling he was mine, when you see him just say BJC says 'hello'!