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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2014 20:07:24 GMT
When the track layout is altered at a location - take, for example, Whitchapel in 2010 - what is the procedure for familiarising T/Ops with the new location and the new moves which can be carried out. Does it just get explained in a traffic circular or something, or is there a briefing session about it? Would you have to go through once with an I/Op or something like that?
Also, what about if ever a new branch opens or if ever the line is extended? I assume the procedure would be more involved and require some significant training depending on the length of the branch. Take the extension to Heathrow Terminal 5, for example, as that's the most recent one I can think of. Perhaps someone might know about the process that was gone through for the JLE?
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Post by Hassaan on Jun 3, 2014 20:21:20 GMT
When the track layout is altered at a location - take, for example, Whitchapel in 2010 - what is the procedure for familiarising T/Ops with the new location and the new moves which can be carried out. Does it just get explained in a traffic circular or something, or is there a briefing session about it? Would you have to go through once with an I/Op or something like that? Also, what about if ever a new branch opens or if ever the line is extended? I assume the procedure would be more involved and require some significant training depending on the length of the branch. Take the extension to Heathrow Terminal 5, for example, as that's the most recent one I can think of. Perhaps someone might know about the process that was gone through for the JLE? Surely must be both given that all drivers need very detailed route knowledge about track/signal/junction layouts etc? |
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Post by Chris M on Jun 4, 2014 10:15:01 GMT
I recall a post, I think from Tom, around the time the Terminal 4 loop reopened that explained the bootstrap procedure. I can't find the post now, but from memory it is something like: - A group of people (I/ops?) walk the track (with the signalling designers?), learning it from track level
- That group then take a train slowly along the new track, confirming signalling sighting, etc
- When they are happy with it, that group then train the rest of the I/ops
- Once familiar, the I/ops train the rest of the drivers
- Once a sufficient number of drivers are trained, the line opens for public service
My guess would be that the decommissioning of something would need to be covered only in a formal notice. The commissioning of a simple thing like one new crossover would I guess be between the two. |
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Post by rummer on Jun 6, 2014 8:44:56 GMT
Chris M is right although when terminal 5 was opened we was also given a DVD of the route from Terminals 123 up to Terminal 5 showing all signals, evacuation points and the sidings at Terminal 5 and then you've guessed it the route back to Terminals 123 from Terminal 5
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Post by Colin on Jun 6, 2014 11:57:25 GMT
When the track layout is altered at a location - take, for example, Whitchapel in 2010 - what is the procedure for familiarising T/Ops with the new location and the new moves which can be carried out. In the case of Whitechapel, the track layout was modified in stages over many months and so each change was notified via the traffic circular and notices at book on points. Whitechapel was a simplification of a slightly more complicated layout and so there was no need to offer anything more detailed than what was done. Also, what about if ever a new branch opens or if ever the line is extended? I assume the procedure would be more involved and require some significant training depending on the length of the branch.? Yes, if things are made more complicated the training required will reflect that. When Lillie Bridge became a District line stabling location, all drivers had a briefing with an Instructor Operator and where physically hiked around the depot (hiking is where we walk around the location looking at all the available moves, stop marks, signalling, etc, etc). The same was done for new stabling roads at Upminster, introduced last year. When the siding was added at West Ham, drivers again had a briefing with an Instructor Operator, but all the moves were covered by DVD in a training room. The reasoning for doing it this way was that drivers where driving past it on a daily basis before it was commissioned and so Hiking wasn't deemed to be necessary. As you can see, there's no hard and fast laid down procedure - it's very much down to the nature of the change and the best way to communicate that change. |
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