For those of you who haven`t seen these two class 20`s in BB livery, which I think???? is known as the drain train, it is currently based at Welwyn Garden City and has been for the past few months.
Stupid question - where did the authority to proceed come from? I don't see an applicable signal. Not a driver, but interested. Was it verbal? Thank you.
I assume that’s a Mobile Operations Manager that can be seen in the Cess at the start of the video. He is likely acting as the liaison with the signaller, hence his checking of the mainline signal. The siding the loco came from is what is sometimes known as a Defective Wagon Siding (or Cripple Siding - not a PC term these days, so usage is dying out), and they rarely have exit signals. In fact, I was surprised to see this one had powered points as they are often some of the last places you’ll find a lever frame. Anything in the siding will be given verbal authority by the signaller (or other competent person, such as a ground frame operator) to proceed to the next lineside signal, and then obey all further signals, or in this case, pass the wrong direction position light that can be seen (on the right after the changing of ends), change ends and then proceed.
@@southcalder Thank you very much for your reply. You answered a couple of other questions I had too, so thank you! With the local ops manager in the cess but no lever frame could that mean that maybe those point out of the siding are locally controlled and the signaller controls everything else? or is the local ops manager just there as a safety barrier and ease driver workloads?
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For those of you who haven`t seen these two class 20`s in BB livery, which I think???? is known as the drain train, it is currently based at Welwyn Garden City and has been for the past few months.
Stupid question - where did the authority to proceed come from? I don't see an applicable signal. Not a driver, but interested. Was it verbal? Thank you.
I assume that’s a Mobile Operations Manager that can be seen in the Cess at the start of the video. He is likely acting as the liaison with the signaller, hence his checking of the mainline signal. The siding the loco came from is what is sometimes known as a Defective Wagon Siding (or Cripple Siding - not a PC term these days, so usage is dying out), and they rarely have exit signals. In fact, I was surprised to see this one had powered points as they are often some of the last places you’ll find a lever frame. Anything in the siding will be given verbal authority by the signaller (or other competent person, such as a ground frame operator) to proceed to the next lineside signal, and then obey all further signals, or in this case, pass the wrong direction position light that can be seen (on the right after the changing of ends), change ends and then proceed.
@@southcalder Thank you very much for your reply. You answered a couple of other questions I had too, so thank you! With the local ops manager in the cess but no lever frame could that mean that maybe those point out of the siding are locally controlled and the signaller controls everything else? or is the local ops manager just there as a safety barrier and ease driver workloads?
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