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Nice to see some familiar territory 21/03/2010 at 05:51 #926
Mad Mac
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As a battle-hardened veteran of many nights in Waverley SC, it's great to see this. Like the ground frames! Thanks to all for their efforts.

Few observations:

Kaimes - Protecting signal is EJ698, not ES698

Curriehill - has two crossovers

1R10 - I inadvertently signalled this up to E 483, from where it can't get to its booked platform(19). Should the driver have challenged it?

GFs - Just as an FYI, some are actually Ground Switch Panels (Stenton, Reston (Crossovers), Linlithgow and Curriehill

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Nice to see some familiar territory 21/03/2010 at 05:51 #7544
Mad Mac
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As a battle-hardened veteran of many nights in Waverley SC, it's great to see this. Like the ground frames! Thanks to all for their efforts.

Few observations:

Kaimes - Protecting signal is EJ698, not ES698

Curriehill - has two crossovers

1R10 - I inadvertently signalled this up to E 483, from where it can't get to its booked platform(19). Should the driver have challenged it?

GFs - Just as an FYI, some are actually Ground Switch Panels (Stenton, Reston (Crossovers), Linlithgow and Curriehill

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Nice to see some familiar territory 21/03/2010 at 15:22 #7573
UKTrainMan
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Mad Mac said:
1R10 - I inadvertently signalled this up to E 483, from where it can't get to its booked platform(19). Should the driver have challenged it?
E483 is the starting signal for Platform 17 so quite how you signalled it upto there I don't know :: (I don't mean that to sound rude, btw)

I note from the list of trains there are three 1R10s, a 1R10-1, 1R10-2 and 1R10-3 so I am assuming that you are talking about 1R10-3 which is indeed booked into Platform 19.

I can easily imagine that if you signal a train into a different platform then the driver will not challenge it as they will assume you maybe have a points/signal/track-circuit failure or some other reason why they cannot use the booked platform therefore they may not challenge it.

Any views and / or opinions expressed by myself are from me personally and do not represent those of any company I either work for or am a consultant for.
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Nice to see some familiar territory 21/03/2010 at 22:25 #7621
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Platform alterations occur regularly, it's not the driver's job to complain - he'll accept any platform.

You do have to watch for the passengers though, we don't like Platform alterations!

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Nice to see some familiar territory 22/03/2010 at 00:27 #7628
UKTrainMan
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welshdragon said:
You do have to watch for the passengers though, we don't like Platform alterations!
I don't really mind them - I would just assume the signaller has their reasons for using a different platform - as long as the TOC involved keep me correctly informed within reasonable time to make it to the different platform....but of course I play SimSig so I can appreciate that using an alternative platform may be needed.

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Nice to see some familiar territory 22/03/2010 at 04:34 #7634
Mad Mac
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UKTrainMan said:
E483 is the starting signal for Platform 17 so quite how you signalled it upto there I don't know
Put that way, neither do I......

Answers re the wrong platform are what I expected i.e. he wouldn't challenge it.

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