That was a great idea to take the decommissioned equipment and make a training tool out of it. I remember there was a train dispatcher simulator program for your PC and I tried the sample version and it was a learning experience, however, this is better for real hands-on classroom training. It even looks fun.
Great video, I work as a signaller in Sweden. Most of our proper signal boxes are sadly closed and transferred to control centers, but a few still remain. This panel is very similar in operation to the Type 65 relay interlocking used on many larger stations over here.
Victoria Signalling Centre at Clapham Junction was a disaster! Failures all the time. Track Ciruits are not something that terrorists should know about.
Late reply - the panel is indeed out of use, but it still exists. The team from the Swindon Panel Society removed the panel and installed it at Didcot Railway Centre, where it is now set up as a fully interactive and accurate simulator. Train movements are simulated by computer, and shown on the panel as they appeared in service, and it's open for the public to have a go. It's a superb simulation as well!
That was a great idea to take the decommissioned equipment and make a training tool out of it. I remember there was a train dispatcher simulator program for your PC and I tried the sample version and it was a learning experience, however, this is better for real hands-on classroom training. It even looks fun.
Great video, I work as a signaller in Sweden. Most of our proper signal boxes are sadly closed and transferred to control centers, but a few still remain. This panel is very similar in operation to the Type 65 relay interlocking used on many larger stations over here.
thanksfor this great video . Again a nice story, i pooped in today. :)
Is the board still in use or just for show
it was in use when this video was made, taken out of use in 2016
Victoria Signalling Centre at Clapham Junction was a disaster! Failures all the time. Track Ciruits are not something that terrorists should know about.
Late reply - the panel is indeed out of use, but it still exists. The team from the Swindon Panel Society removed the panel and installed it at Didcot Railway Centre, where it is now set up as a fully interactive and accurate simulator. Train movements are simulated by computer, and shown on the panel as they appeared in service, and it's open for the public to have a go. It's a superb simulation as well!
It needs Lieutenant Uhura on her own desk.
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I swear you Brits make things way more complicated than necessary. I think it has something with modernizing the old system keeping old similarities.
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Terrorists must not know about Track Ciruits.