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Post by paterson00 on Jul 28, 2009 18:36:24 GMT
What does it do? What is the MTC? "Switching over to MTC"
Is Westrace like SSI? What are the differences?
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Post by Tom on Jul 28, 2009 20:00:33 GMT
I think you mean MCT - Maintainer's Control Terminal.
The PLC is an additional form of diversity looking for sequential operation of track circuits, amongst other things.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2009 21:25:58 GMT
thats why you get loads of sequence alarms
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Post by paterson00 on Jul 29, 2009 3:29:21 GMT
PLC is a programmable logic controller.... Is that right ?
So why do the TO's that I'm watching test out at the end of the night ask me to press the buttons on the "thingy card"? What does that do and why does it need a button pressing?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2009 17:53:42 GMT
im affraid i have never been trained on central line (westrace) so cannot comment. But PLC does stand for programmable logic controller
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Post by railtechnician on Jul 29, 2009 18:19:59 GMT
PLC is a programmable logic controller.... Is that right ? So why do the TO's that I'm watching test out at the end of the night ask me to press the buttons on the "thingy card"? What does that do and why does it need a button pressing? I'm wondering if you actually ask the TOs you are working with what they are actually doing. I appreciate that they may be busy testing out at the time but there are usually more than enough opportunities to ask questions at the depot. When I was a young wireman it was very hard to discover anything from one's peers and supervisors were frequently too busy to spare time to explain, the way to learn then was voluntary evening classes. I think that attitude changed long ago and certainly when I was a TO I spent many hours going through prints and explaining circuitry, testing procedures etc to my support colleagues and getting them to test out sites and equipment when I had time available to allow them to do so. As for Westrace I can't help you because I never had anything to do with it but if you're as keen to learn as you seem to be I'd advise you to keep a notebook and pencil in your pocket, to write down not only what you learn but also those things that puzzle you and the context, site and other details so that you can ask more detailed questions and hopefully get more meaningful answers. After all the thingy card could be almost anything! |
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Post by paterson00 on Jul 30, 2009 19:11:28 GMT
Thanks for your answer. I do already ask alot of questions which is why I divert some of them to here so as not to be too much of a pain in the neck but another reason I ask on here is that a question will usually pop into my head on the way home after the shift has finished so I ask it on here before I forget what my question was by the time the next shift comes around plus here it quite often leads to multiple people answering the question and sometmes a discussion will start between two experienced guys and the knowledge gained from that I usually find to be far more valuable than the answers I receive at work. I think the website is a great place to
learn from.
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Post by Ben on Jul 30, 2009 20:04:24 GMT
On the subject of notebooks, I knew a driver on the met 8 years back called Len Griffiths who always carried round a notebook; full of questions and answers about all kinds of tube related subjects. It was always pleasing that a question asked of the notebook would at the next serendipidous meet have gained an answer! Carrying a notebook has got to be one of the best habbits to get into in life, by far.
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Post by railtechnician on Aug 1, 2009 11:34:16 GMT
On the subject of notebooks, I knew a driver on the met 8 years back called Len Griffiths who always carried round a notebook; full of questions and answers about all kinds of tube related subjects. It was always pleasing that a question asked of the notebook would at the next serendipidous meet have gained an answer! Carrying a notebook has got to be one of the best habbits to get into in life, by far. Absolutely, I carried one in one form or another for most of my career. In the early days it was just the NUR diary, in the years when I carried a briefcase it was often an A4 pad and as a lineman a pocket sized hard covered notepad with a pencil. |
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