Train Crew Emergency Training

It isn't, Train Operators are not licensed (or trained) to use jumper cables.

Duty Reliability Managers are but from listening to the radio chatter the "East End" DRM was at Woodford trying to get a train to Debden, whether they ever got to Epping I do not know

In other words, training has been withdrawn, to the detriment of operating flexibility.
I wonder why? Not a money-saving measure, surely?

It was always a bit hit and miss even with DMTs, but it’s even more so now. Generally those who have done the training course keep it maintained via CDP. Some people manage to avoid it, in the same way some DRMs mysteriously manage to avoid stock training, in turn meaning they conveniently avoid the frighteningly awful risk of having to drive a train at or after an incident...

It's all very well relying on others, however the NIRM and ERU are both not stock trained, hence examples of the lead being plugged into the wrong box, or the switch or box getting broken.

In reality there probably wouldn't be a massive point in training train operators, as in most cases the train operator is required to be in the cab moving the train. It takes a certain kind of person to be able to set up the leads on their own *and* move the train, although it can be done (although strictly speaking two people are required for leads, for carrying them to site if nothing else).

Having said that, the general rule is that the fewer people turn up the quicker a defective train is likely to be moving! Unfortunately this is precisely the opposite of LU's current thinking, with the LUCC being keen to send anyone and everyone. So you'll have 30-40 people all turning up at something simple -- in amongst that a few pointscorers trying to throw in their knowledge to get their name on a report somewhere, a few old timers who think 30 years equals knowing what they're doing and whose method of defect handling is to randomly punch every button and switch in the hope that somehow the train starts moving, and of course the NIRM trying to be the hero. Think of all this going on in a small cab, and all of the above either on the phone or radio to their governor. It can all be quite disconcerting for the poor train operator, who is normally used to their cab being an oasis of tranquility!