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Post by jamesb on Apr 4, 2018 23:07:33 GMT
I am sitting now at Woodford, and have noticed that every evening around this time a 92ts train is stabled in the siding and seems to undergo some form of testing. The doors are cycled open and closed, the PA system announces "OPO Alarm, 1,2 3, 4, 5" and the front passenger emergency alarm is tested briefly. Also , somebody walks through the train with a torch and checks that all the inter-car barriers are correctly in place.
Are there different levels of tests for these trains? How often does this type of check happen?
My attention was drawn to the train by the characteristic cab "duh duh" noise when the PEA was tested.
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Post by firestorm on Apr 5, 2018 13:48:58 GMT
I am sitting now at Woodford, and have noticed that every evening around this time a 92ts train is stabled in the siding and seems to undergo some form of testing. The doors are cycled open and closed, the PA system announces "OPO Alarm, 1,2 3, 4, 5" and the front passenger emergency alarm is tested briefly. Also , somebody walks through the train with a torch and checks that all the inter-car barriers are correctly in place. Are there different levels of tests for these trains? How often does this type of check happen? My attention was drawn to the train by the characteristic cab "duh duh" noise when the PEA was tested. That would be a train prep that is done every 24 hours. I believe the tone is the opo alarm about to go off, normally the train radio mcb is tripped whilst in the depot. However for the OPO alarm test it needs to be cut in which also starts the opo alarm if the tbc has been set. |
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Post by aslefshrugged on Apr 5, 2018 14:16:17 GMT
When a driver picks up a train in the sidings or depot part of their "Train Continuity Test" is to check that a train maintainer has signed the "Certificate of Preparation & Examination" in the previous 48 hours.
Under normal circumstances the trains are prepped every night but there have times in the past when the train maintainers have been on strike and drivers have refused to take trains into service because they've gone over the time limit. |
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