Oi oi what is the intro🤣😂

I sort of get it

I hear a voice in my head saying "Mind the Gap"... I've seen plenty different ones in this video....

A shorting bar across live rails would cause a shutdown in power within microseconds and a bloody big current flow! REM Ohms law ! If a potential of 1 volt is placed across a resistance of 1 ohm then a current of 1 amp will flow !

I saw a program a few months ago that keeps 2 gas turbine generators on standby in case the grid came down! I guess it’s highly unlikely but say a bomb attack on the line is always possible or say an asteroid could strike anytime anywhere!

Just realised one of those bridges is the Philanthropic School bridge between Nutfield and Redhill, the Philanthropic school was a very naughty boys school I spent 3 years hard at and we used to wait for trains to come along and we would give drivers various "hand signals" and stuff, one of the night staff at the place was a retired Redhill driver called Chris Martin whom the drivers reached out to, Chris was a lovely bloke but he put the fear of god in us lads plus let me father know we were giving rizz to the poor drivers so I copped it twice as hard and we did stop annoying drivers passing under neath the bridge. Ironic too is I grew up literally a few minutes walk from Sundridge Park station shown here when a 2 car tyneside EPB would trundle along between Bromley North and Grove Park and platform 3's mainline chord was still in use allowing Bromley North to Charing Cross expresses that would be non stop from Grove Park to Waterloo East with the little 2 car tyneside strapped to the rear end of a 10 car consist during rush hour which would be parted at Bromley North and the 8 cars spare would wend their way back to Grove Park carriage sheds waiting for the next rush hour.

Only pass a red signal if you 100% sure you have every permission to do so

Was that the unreleased Hargreaves character Mr Unibrow Angry Man driving the train? Man he did look somewhat aggrieved about something...

I always remember me father back in the 70's moaning on when he had to go over from Gillingham signal box and unlock the Chatham dockyard line points and wind them over by hand, more so when it was raining and he had to quick about it as Chatham main line is a busy line and EMU's held up both sides as the usual 33 would scoot over to berth in the carriage shed sidings but the crossover was box controlled but the dockyard line was padlocked out of use usually. He used to moan a lot when he was at Sittingbourne and relief'd along the Sheppey lines and had to go out and allow the Ford trains or the steel trains to enter the main line, Ford's points did have a handy shelter protecting the ground frame with a mains socket so he would brew up some tea whilst my uncle Ray would chuckle along in his 33 waiting for his rostered window going through pints of strong dark BR tea, Sheerness was less hospitable with the rain and sea spray making life damp and no access to tea either.

Good old 508s. We had 3 on the DC uears ago. 301.2.and 3

The technical term for intervention and SPAD's is getting "rednosed" which invariably ended up with a carpeting by the traction manager and persistent reoffenders would be moved to another role or simply sacked. The thing with ATP and TPMS is they can't be ignored, this was a major concern with AWS as a driver would cancel the sunflower and still not pay as much attention to the road ahead, DRA's also are only effective if a driver concentrates on them and works with them as the book states, a lot of drivers don't even bother with them and there is no actual use other than a post it note saying "dont go through that red" TPMS is actually quite good as it calculates a braking application too light would SPAD the train so orders a full brake and also sees a train accelerating too hard for track conditions and will do the same and traction managers routinely monitor trains black boxes to see who gets red nosed.

Seems a little bit like teaching you grandmother to duck eggs

Was thinking when they couple up two services at Salisbury, they don't do all that stuff the driver just rams it in good and hard, quick pull away and that is it. I have coupled EPB's and some CEP's at Selhurst when they were a man down and no relief so muggins here got drafted in and abs mucky too. BR was like the army, never volunteer a thing as when they found out me father had taught me how to work a NX signalling panel guess who in the TOPs portakabin got lumbered passing units in and out and around Selhurst yards cos the chief shunter was up yard and he would get me on the radio or the fone if he was mugging tea in the works "pass such and such unit to LB will you for exit pathing and window" so a call to central panels London Bridge to get the various details and permissions which I had to trudge up to the waiting driver to give to then back to the cabin and handover the unit to LB setting the points up for exit and off they would go.

All my old man got for a lifetime of service including being one of the first staff to arrive at St Johns and going like 2 decades plus without a sick day and forced early retirement having worked virtually every day off as well from the 50's to the 90's was a crappy clock of dubious quality... He was promised Cuxton's starter signal when it got replaced... never got it despite him rebuilding in the 70's Cuxton and Snodland boxes including fitting a flushing toilet and practically rebuilt Snodland... both listed... I spoke to someone who spoke to someone at Network Rail whose attitude when asked about the various rebuilt signal boxes was pretty poor. When he died some years past, his employer after BR/NR Swanage Railway put on memorial trains and had actual mourning for the bloke.

the electro neumatic brake sound like a machine wallace coud make

ABC: Assume nothing Believe no-one Check everything

on a day like that ! a SPAD jesus , these guys should be in prison!!!

I thing Grenwich switches in at times but esept these times allnPoeer if from Nstional Grid as with mainbline trains

So .... now you know 😝 ............................... DAVE™🛑

Communication at every level is of the utmost importance.

The sound editor must have been taking time off from his normal job of sound editing for porn movies.

This is prime time TV in UK....

As an ex-Chiltern Driver, I can say that you NEVER pass a signal at Danger unless given permission by the Bobby, a Pilotman, Engineering Supervisor or hand-signalman. I used to follow 2 guidelines during my rail career of 25 years and they were: 1: Never Assume and 2: If In Doubt, Don't! Those 2 principles always kept me safe.

Driver passes a red. Committee thinks we can solve this with even more red 😂.

If you want to see the Dutch railways trying the same thing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/enipg4KchpmJg68 They got the shutoff-point handed on the time-table in print paper.

Irritates me when they call themselves Train 'drivers' they are train operators, they don't drive them they operate them

I WISH I WAS ON THE TUBE 🚇 IN 2002.

Anytime I've seen units coupled in the UK, they've used automatic couplers. Noone stands anywhere near the trains.

why didn’t this program show the uncoupling procedure 😭

Well, ASSUME going between them, easy to do.At no point was any authority sought or given to pass that signal at danger.

Class 321 321303-"PEP"

Correction In 2024 new lines of london overground, Wind rush Line, Suffragette line, Weaver line, Liberty line, Mild may line

I loved travelling on C stock when I was growing up.

How is here, because Percy don't know what to do when the Signal arm got down.

When I was at VSC Clapham Junction, had a very high failure rate, ASE had to be paid off, replacement was to be sacked in 6 months time with chief signal engineers unless failure rate dropped, bought in man from Stanley led a task force team, he reduced failure rate.

Could Chris be any more boring? Lol

"Goodness Sake Kevin, could have killed somone man"

That intro music, I was waiting for "Weird naked Indian guy" To walk over the crossing.

So djd anyone lose their job orcwas it a learning day for them?

I love the low-key drama. No screaming. No finger pointing. Just men stating what happened.

17:32 😂 that laugh lol 😂

Great video ! Also I like the introductory music

I watch this video once a year

The panpipes in this are something sinister alright, as is a 2 60 train fare. 😅

All Line

8:39 watching a training video that has no relevance to my career goals. My life is screwed

uk domestic sparky here, with family history of railway (dad worked for BREL Eastleigh, southern region, as an electrician). Got a customer who is a train driver for south western railway, but a total geek of railways, i will share this with him. If i have already done so by the time you read this, Hi Colin

He should of known better 100% who agrees

Rip Tom

I was always under the impression that you were sacked on the spot for a SPAD caused by you as the driver. This was a clear failure to follow procedure. In most non safety critical jobs that's gross misconduct.