Whatever happened to Bob Manning? Are you still alive and well out there, watching this? I'm guessing his robotic voice was due to the fact he was just very nervous. In those days, to be filmed was quite unusual, but in the current 2020s many 'ordinary' people think of being in a video as no big deal.
I do love the HST,sound of the brakes,engian's the speed and conford lovely 😘😍 and that horn wow please stand away from the platform 2 fast train approaching,wushhhh ahhh🤩,noch3 as she screams🤩
And they were rather heavyweight as well! Those workstations were set up so that the CRT units could be removed/replaced from the back. Remember, that in those days (1988/89) flat screen displays like the one in front of me just now did not exist. Around the same time, some places were using projection displays, but in those cases they were used rather like display panels only, in the main. The display units used had a screen format of 4:3 (roughly), and that kind of dictated how layouts were presented, so that they could be accommodated within the available equipment. The one mentioned in the footage was designed for London Liverpool Street, and I think it’s true that it was the first one to be commissioned, but soon followed by some others, notably London Marylebone (which I had a bit to do with) in late 1989.
Very true, electronic signalling, as any electronics often fails, relay signalling is far more reliable and easier to work with, thankfully I maintain Birmingham (new street) which is still relay interlocking, until it gets replaced in a few years time with electronics, and that’s when I’ll retire thank you
I seem to remember Bob as a Euston House chap who my old father thought was "god" hehe. What was it with old British Rail video's with the doomsaying synth music? Its like watching the opening credits of Survivors for sheer doom and gloom background music lol
IECCs are still used in some places they are gradually being updated and replaced in some places. Some however if I’m not mistaken are still very similar to this.
Also in places older PSBs power signal boxes are still in use too. There used to be one at Swindon which has been preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre
The green panels (known as NX) are in very common use even though they date from the 1970s. IECC is still in use and has evolved into scalable IECC. And of course there are still some lever frames out there
"Meanwhile, down on the platform, the train gets ready to depart," says the narrator after the train has already begun to set off! Not sure how it is still "getting ready" to depart after it has already started moving! :p
its BR it dont need to make sence it just need to be dangerous as thats what thay are so good at seeing there where 7 major accidents from 1980 to 1984 in the uk lol
@@Sam-bz1hr I was annoyed when the guard on a train told us `sorry for the delay, we're waiting for the signal person to give us the go ahead' or words to that effect. I don't know what these people do with words like mankind, I guess you're now meant to say humankind! I guess `signaller' isn't too bad.
@@WINSTANLEYOBXa So you hope. The signaler in the German Bad Aibling train crash was playing Dungeon Hunter 5 on his phone when 12 people were killed in a head-on.
Bob has a nice suit and tie. Now he’d be wearing a T shirt and jeans.
Whatever happened to Bob Manning? Are you still alive and well out there, watching this? I'm guessing his robotic voice was due to the fact he was just very nervous. In those days, to be filmed was quite unusual, but in the current 2020s many 'ordinary' people think of being in a video as no big deal.
I'm glad im stoned. The speed these people talk, the music, the graphics, the computers, the trains. Love it.
It's always fun watching things on TH-cam regarding trains while on some sort of substance or scheduled narcotic 😂
Complicated stuff, even back then!!
I do love the HST,sound of the brakes,engian's the speed and conford lovely 😘😍 and that horn wow please stand away from the platform 2 fast train approaching,wushhhh ahhh🤩,noch3 as she screams🤩
Goodness, how clunky those prototype IECC displays looked.
And they were rather heavyweight as well! Those workstations were set up so that the CRT units could be removed/replaced from the back. Remember, that in those days (1988/89) flat screen displays like the one in front of me just now did not exist. Around the same time, some places were using projection displays, but in those cases they were used rather like display panels only, in the main. The display units used had a screen format of 4:3 (roughly), and that kind of dictated how layouts were presented, so that they could be accommodated within the available equipment.
The one mentioned in the footage was designed for London Liverpool Street, and I think it’s true that it was the first one to be commissioned, but soon followed by some others, notably London Marylebone (which I had a bit to do with) in late 1989.
The music at 4:25 is impossibly epic. I want it to follow me around my day to day life.
Here: th-cam.com/video/3nfvOqyrs38/w-d-xo.html
@@JJVernig thank you. That music made me feel so empowered that I secured a 300% payrise and disrupted an international diamond smuggling ring.
@@ProfessorPesca 😂 Happy to made your day...
@@ProfessorPesca 5:26 is more appropriate to our increasingly surreal and bizarre era I feel...
true
What happens when you get a computer failure,then nothing works unless they have got a manual back up
Very true, electronic signalling, as any electronics often fails, relay signalling is far more reliable and easier to work with, thankfully I maintain Birmingham (new street) which is still relay interlocking, until it gets replaced in a few years time with electronics, and that’s when I’ll retire thank you
Nice upload, thanks for this shows a great view of signalling in the 80's (which in principal hasn't changed too much really!)
Give me a lever frame any day, these computer panels are so clinical and cold....
"Signalling systems are broken down": slightly unfortunate choice of words to start it off with. All too often they are.
I seem to remember Bob as a Euston House chap who my old father thought was "god" hehe. What was it with old British Rail video's with the doomsaying synth music? Its like watching the opening credits of Survivors for sheer doom and gloom background music lol
enjoyed it............well done................tank you..........h6
What year was this
Is this system still used. Or is it ancient history too?
IECCs are still used in some places they are gradually being updated and replaced in some places. Some however if I’m not mistaken are still very similar to this.
Also in places older PSBs power signal boxes are still in use too. There used to be one at Swindon which has been preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre
I've seen the green panels still in use nowadays in documentaries, but with modern LCD monitors in place of the *VDUs*
The green panels (known as NX) are in very common use even though they date from the 1970s. IECC is still in use and has evolved into scalable IECC. And of course there are still some lever frames out there
I never knew IECC's dated back to BR
"Meanwhile, down on the platform, the train gets ready to depart," says the narrator after the train has already begun to set off! Not sure how it is still "getting ready" to depart after it has already started moving! :p
its BR it dont need to make sence it just need to be dangerous as thats what thay are so good at seeing there where 7 major accidents from 1980 to 1984 in the uk lol
@@brickleyyard4966 and how many of those were caused by signalling - approximately?
@@brickleyyard4966 I hope you're not making a case for privatisation with Railtrack's safety record !
Do you have adenoids?
Signalmen ? Do they exist ?
They do, though we’re supposed to call them “signallers” in political correct speak !
@@Satters I wanted to put railwayman on my daughters birth certificate, they wouldn't allow it , how very PC
@@Sam-bz1hr I was annoyed when the guard on a train told us `sorry for the delay, we're waiting for the signal person to give us the go ahead' or words to that effect. I don't know what these people do with words like mankind, I guess you're now meant to say humankind! I guess `signaller' isn't too bad.
The new system gives the signaller time to read the newspaper or play games on the computer now! lol [Fact].
So signallers at Liverpool Street are playing Pac-man - I really don't think so. You say "fact" - please explain.
Safety Critical environment.
No games
@@WINSTANLEYOBXa So you hope. The signaler in the German Bad Aibling train crash was playing Dungeon Hunter 5 on his phone when 12 people were killed in a head-on.
modern
modern in the 1980s. some of the green panels are actually still in use! but with modern LCD monitors in place of the *VDUs*