British Rail PTS training video

A BR training video for Personal Track Safety (PTS) covering the major points like phoning a signaler after a incident and how to behave around the railway.

[@johnriggs4929]

"Forgot me spanner" "Where did you leave it? "In the middle of the four foot, 100 yards away, where I always leave it..."

[@mr.kingmango44]

Yeah I didn’t understand that part

[@NeilShearer-ok2gi]

This is a old BR film on the pts

[@NeilShearer-ok2gi]

1987 in fact

[@SgtChip]

That opening scene really proves it's point. It shows bluntly the dangers of carelessness.

[@AluminumOxide]

For those wondering, this video was made in 1985

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

Safety is a serious business in that work. Respect to all involved.

[@bb-3653]

That lying down in the " six foot" was always something I thought about .

[@hannahranga]

Just make sure you are in the 6 foot, don't panic and end up in the 4foot

[@Scotford_Maconochie]

Worked on the railway in the UK for 5 years. Now work for CP in Canada. A whole new set of rules, operating methods etc, a hugely exacting job but always hugely rewarding too.

[@notyourdinner3446]

What's it like in Canada mate? Better money? Better work?

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

@@notyourdinner3446 the trains are much more american

[@Scotford_Maconochie]

​@@notyourdinner3446 better money, more exciting work in two provinces. I get to travel a lot different parts of the network and meet interesting people.

[@tyronelorenzovalentio3414]

@@Scotford_Maconochieis the Canada more tougher

[@Sam-bz1hr]

Don't walk on the sleepers you may wake them up

[@Hrodn]

Groan.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Don’t step on the rail lines you may bend them

[@sj-ll6wc]

Yeah funny. You slip up your gone mate. 25yrs on track. No jokes

[@vandomog5971]

Don't walk in front of a train. You'll probably get killed.

[@Trootsbloxplayzthemetalfan]

@@sj-ll6wcyou Australian?

[@nigel2093]

3:09 'Do not tread on the sleepers or rails...they may be slippy' 6:54 They're walking on the sleepers and rail 🤣🤣

[@fetchstixRHD]

Plot twist: they appear at 15:10 again 🤔

[@tm4609]

Yup and it's a pretty good way to get yourself killed.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Someone tell them it’s slippy

[@ophthodoc]

Thought slippy was Pittsburghese

[@james9311]

Do as I say not as I do 😂

[@davecook3840]

I remember being a PICOW all them years ago. Then it changed to COSS (controller of site safety), we still have COSS and also Safe Work Leader backed up with PIC (Person in Charge) who is responsible for making sure the safe system of work proposed is suitable and implemented properly. We do still use the safe system that the PICOW set up in the video but it has to be the very last option and authorised by senior management. Lot of safety improvements over the years, will always be down to people doing what they supposed to do mind and following the rules or potentially it's still as dangerous an industry as it always was

[@ianjones4116]

I worked Pway 1985 to 95, luckily there were no Mobile Phones in my day. Many times saw our Look Out man with a Big Dew drop hanging off his nose. Poor old bugger was Frozen. I do miss the Railway. Love these vids,, sitting watching and Shouting at my TV lol. Thanks for sharing. 👍

[@arboischarmsninja1157]

I did not have the time to read that

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Hello

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

@@ianjones4116 poor lookout

[@sj-ll6wc]

Totally agree. S+T for 20yrs

[@elizabethannferrario7113]

Hi guys Having been a railway nurse checking men out for certification for PTS , It has been my pleasure to examine personnel for these certifications , and its down to these gentlemen to do their upmost to keep themselves healthy , however personal must be honest when asked questions , honesty is vital as there life depends on it ,

[@DavidR_192]

'Personal must be honest'?

[@pauljordan4452]

​@@DavidR_192She meant personnel of course.

[@davecook3840]

Mark partridge was a trainer at the BR Technical Training Centre in Derby. He was the instructor on a course I did there once

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Cool

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

I saw a guy with one of them tooters yesterday (09/11/19) and his colleagues didnt heed the first warning! He looked panicked

[@alihanate3927]

wait a minute..............that's 9/11 the date

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

@@alihanate3927 yea November 9th or September 11th

[@VirreFriberg]

9:26 love how he walks on the third rail

[@pukeylukey8538]

obviously disconnected mate lol

[@VirreFriberg]

@@pukeylukey8538 Sort of looks like a train approaching towards the end of the clip

[@dantebingham6043]

That isn't a 3rd rail there I think it's a spare rail left in the 4 foot

[@johnm2012]

That's the wrong location for a conductor rail.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

That’s a spare rail

[@CycolacFan]

This might have just answered my question as to why the roadworks on motorways always have one man working and 15 just standing about.

[@Sam-bz1hr]

No different on the railway lol

[@michaelferrigno2604]

I literally said the same thing when I started working on the rails. It alll makes sense now

[@BeeRich33]

Ian obviously didn't see this video. Well since it's him in it, he couldn't have seen it...never mind.

[@wandawizard5605]

Scary to work in the tunnel. They’re brave men to work on the railways.

[@lolzlolz102]

Pretty sure you don't inspect tunnels on an open line these days. Either full closure or line blockage.

[@CJ-zt5mr]

I work for network rail and we are not allowed in them now unless the line has been blocked or it's an emergency @@lolzlolz102

[@mazf1302]

No one gonna talk about the bravery of the camera man?

[@videocritical]

This gives me a Hornby section at Beatties vibe

[@TheRoadtoRugbyFitness]

2:47 "It only needs trains to be coming in both directions, and you can be the filling in a very nasty sandwich." Not gonna get the image of a blood-and-guts sandwich out of my mind now. Probably the intention of the video, heh.

[@FishbedMyBeloved]

@Mario Lisa with lead-paint crust

[@bukachell]

Mmm lunch

[@alexhando8541]

Or as I like to call it "the spin-cycle of death"

[@Renault_75-34MX]

I don't know why I'm watching this at 9 in the evening, or why it was even suggested to me

[@TheChipmunk2008]

16:51 ish... check that you are wearing clean..... my mind: underwear Narrator: high visibility clothing me: wonder if you can get high viz yfronts?

[@thegooselord4978]

RIP IAN

[@ianjones4116]

Thank you for your kind words. 😎

[@jessiematthews4224]

@@ianjones4116 aaaaaarrgh heeees baack

[@rossmckenzie2433]

Er ........ it wasn't real, you fool ........ they were fucking ACTING🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@freddieparrydrums]

@@rossmckenzie2433 r/whoooosh

[@jessiematthews4224]

@@rossmckenzie2433 what do you mean?

[@EM-yk1dw]

When walking across the track watch out for buddleia, pots of grease and old bits of rail, Network Rail are not renowned for good housekeeping.

[@Sam-bz1hr]

There's shit dumped all over

[@ianjones4116]

The wife cant understand why I hate Budlea bushes so much. She even bloody paid for one from a Garden Centre lol.

[@EM-yk1dw]

@@ianjones4116 lol Ian because once they take root if they are not dealt with they multiply.

[@ianjones4116]

@@EM-yk1dw its funny,, I've even seen tomatoes growing out of the ash in the old dmu sidings,, someone old sandwich seeded itself. Great place the railway. I do miss the Pway. You take care out there 👍

[@EM-yk1dw]

@@ianjones4116 You too Ian. The British Pway is a disgrace now.

[@joelharris1335]

Between Walton Junction and Kirkdale, there are safety refuges in the wall of the cutting and the tunnels.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Very cool

[@FlyToChina0071]

Nice video with a lot of informations on what not to do. Like in aviation with more procedures, checklists etc the less accidents. Normal traffic could learn a lot... Cheers Adam

[@aaaatttt101]

Like the actors in Star Trek wearing a red suit in the away team, Ian's fate was sealed....Because he was called Ian.

[@franciswadsworth6735]

I always to be with someone who's qualified and be with a group who are qualified. Also including policies and procedures, and good team work.

[@HDTransport]

The tunnel thing is creepy

[@GrijzePilion]

It sounds like a sound you would hear in a fighter jet, speeding up as you were being pursued by a cruise missile.

[@jamienewman1488]

Yeah they are very unnerving when your a fresh railwaymen and that TOWS (Train Operated Warning System) goes off your panicking and dont know what to do get used it to it though.

[@bucephalus00]

If it was my first day in the tunnel and I heard that alarm...spare clothes would be required

[@StuAnderson90]

"This is a joint in the four ft" Me "this is a joint in my hand" :D

[@thoughtful_criticiser]

The cleanest and least injured person I have ever seen after being hit by a train. Usually its pieces into a body bag, even those cooked by electricity are worse than Ian. If before Christmas, it reminds you to fill your freezer.

[@billpugh58]

This is a work safety video, not Jaws.

[@tommykiryu777]

0:51 Ian's acting skills need a little bit of improvement.

[@snug-fibbage7441]

fergot me spanna

[@lucastubbs4970]

The fact that the train was going in the opposite direction

[@formidable38]

Thankfully, alot has changed since this was made, for the better!

[@mikewizz1895]

12:14 that could be really creepy especially in a tunnel

[@Rorywizz]

@@TheOldFossil yeah, sounds like Chile's eas alarm kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmiQopWNmbGgg68

[@Reevesi]

I still remember "Robbie" and his football boots. Don't mess with trains kids.

[@dvidclapperton]

Bring the railways back into public ownership and the return of British Rail

[@SuperSirwanksalot]

They are state owned,network rail is part of the public sector🤔

[@droge192]

@@SuperSirwanksalot Network rail is quite different from the TOCs (Train Operating Companies). Yes the infrastructure is state owned but the train operating companies using it aren't (except in some cases; eg LNER on the East Coast Mainline is back in public ownership).

[@RainhamRailEnthusiast]

Thanks for the upload, good archive footage

[@Leroy1Jenkins]

04.02 we’ve all been Bob at one point or another “fuck my life I’m fucking freezing”

[@ClearTrackSpeed]

10/10 production quality 👌

[@ophthodoc]

😂

[@garybeach8902]

Some of the scenes were filmed around the Centre Siding Depot at Bletchley, with some of the non-speaking parts played by lads from the P-Way.

[@FnafFanProductions]

0:51 *he literally turned the wrong way round when the train was coming and wasn't even on the right track and just fell into the train* Well Done British Rail You've Hired The Right Actors 👌

[@cantthinkofaname3344]

Well, they're not going to actually now someone down with a train, or even run that risk, so it's fine. It gets the image across.

[@FnafFanProductions]

@@cantthinkofaname3344 Yeah True You Do Have A Point There. But They Could've Tried To Make It A Little Real.

[@56independent42]

@@FnafFanProductions Don't use title case in body text. It makes it hard to read. Also, this video is old and is designed for safety. Information > acting in this context.

[@peter_smyth]

Remember, always obey the pie car.

[@joelharris1335]

On certain sections of lines, for example between Liverpool Central to Bootle Junction (Between Bank Hall and Bootle Oriel Road) is signalled for Bi-Directional running - which means that trains can run wrong line - depending on the circumstances!

[@brianquinn6030]

What a dangerous job to have .... but did it have to be as dangerous.... if I was a rail line technician I would expect to be paid good money... but I would expect my look out to be paid much much more .... short sighted people would say ...easy money just standing 8 hours a day looking down a railway track looking for a train coming .... how many of us could do that job 5 days a week 8 hours a day... without getting side tracked for more than a few seconds ... ain’t that all it would take ... to loose someone’s life ....massive responsibility

[@390h8er]

The last few seconds resembled the ending of 'Menace II Society' pretty closely.

[@leroys5]

Anyone else got recommended this?

[@SketchyScot]

The sinister music is a track called 'Satanic' composed by Richard Harvey. It falls under American Production Music APM, but you can find it on youtube as it was used in the cartoon Ren and Stimpy, and probably on the likes of Spongebob too. Which takes me out of the serious tone entirely!!

[@hannahranga]

7:33ish, oh boy that sounds like a few techs I know. If that sounds insane to you, realise that often you've got 30/40 seconds before the train gets to you.

[@alberttatlock5237]

Jimmy savile and Keith chegwin kept British rail going during the 70s and 80s

[@johnmasters504]

and Gary Glitter

[@JyujinPlus]

2:47 Disappointed they didn’t say “All it would take is two trains coming either direction, and you would’ve been a Jill Sandwich.”

[@welchtemplarmotorcycles2933]

Line watch in hot 🥵 weather for buckling track always a favourite.🥴

[@LaziUK]

You can't step foot near the track these days without a line blockage granted where no trains will pass through the site of work...that is until a signaller has a lapse of concentration. We're all human, so it will happen at some point, with devastating consequences no doubt...I still think lookout protection is one of the safest most efficient methods of work, obviously not counting a T3 possession...maybe incorporated with modern technology early warning systems alongside the flag and horn.

[@vitsavachuchuen3514]

9:28 man He stepped on the fourth rail because the electricity didn't work.

[@NeilShearer-ok2gi]

I have just completed a 6 month suspension for 2 breaches of sentinel life saving rules

[@christopherwaring8285]

BOB LOOKS A CHEERFULL SOUL BET HE WAS A BARREL OF LAUGHS ON A NIGHT OUT NOT!

[@joshuaW5621]

You never know when Pip and Emma could be coming down the track.

[@geoffwalsh7371]

you would wonder who would actually want to carry out work on a railway line not closed for an engineering posession.

[@ianjones4116]

Asking for a Block !!! No chance mate,, roll him down the cess. Carry on plate oiling . Lol Never mentioned the flying Turd Bombs from under the train. I had to move some turf in Shrewsbury station,, it was upsetting the passengers. It was them fuckers that put it there. All over our nice new Track mats. Thanks for sharing. 😂👍👍

[@traceylamplugh8095]

Didn't know the Tardis was using the train tunnel!!!!

[@BritishRailProductions]

Bring Back Loco Hauled Services and BR

[@yennerz00bradderz]

Might be soon

[@TheDoppelgangster]

That's Richard Briers doing the narration isn't it?

[@alfwedarf7764]

It does sound very much like him, quite a unique voice.

[@k.h.4698]

16:53, (If accident happens or prevention…) “Check that you are wearing clean safety reflector gear …..and clean underwear, mum always says.

[@jamiemills6070]

How times change, we are now having a ban on lookout working shortly.

[@Gump1Gump2]

Would love to know how they do it these days.

[@jamiemills6070]

@@Gump1Gump2 it’s all going to possession or line blockage working. With all the accidents/ near misses and unfortunately fatalities.

[@mrkennerz]

@@jamiemills6070 sorry, I'm about to start my PTS... Does your comment mean that, potentially, most work won't be on "live" lines?

[@TRSPomerania]

That was very eduacational, even for a non-british guy. Lots of important stuff there. Is the movie somewhere from 1990s? Best regards.

[@TheTankTacticianofEngland]

Thanks for the support and glad you enjoyed it, it was made somewhere in the early 1990's; around '93-94.

[@TRSPomerania]

TheGreatBritishRailwayman Thanks for the info!

[@TheDankEngineer]

*somewhen

[@DavidR_192]

@@TheTankTacticianofEngland - Nope. I have this video on an idenxed archive of rail safety videos. This was filmed in March 1985 and published in September 1985.

[@EricH_1983]

02:50 You could be the filling in a very nasty sandwich! This term also applies to prisons..

[@briggsfartblender788]

Sounds like Ray Brooks.

[@videocritical]

Is it not Richard Briers?

[@Dkentflyer]

@@videocritical Definitely Ray Brooks

[@sidsidsidsid]

Dennis the distant look out looked lower than shark shit

[@danieljones3955]

Don’t think Ian would look like that you’d be picking pieces up

[@Westhamsterdam]

Why do tracks have 3rd rails & fourth inside the 4ft? I notice that these exist quite a bit on the high speed.

[@Scotford_Maconochie]

The men working on the Watford DC line. It has a 3rd and 4th rail electrification as the Bakerloo also runs on the same alignment, the West Coast mainline runs beside much of its length.

[@DavidR_192]

Only London Underground lines have the 4th rail. But they do sometimes share tracks with the rail network.

[@PaulNoake]

Um where are Audible Warning Devices(Detonators)

[@flyingmonkey2287]

bob is going to sound his horn, turns down volume. ah not needed then was it

[@jvc7777]

I found the white words on the blue wallpaper quite creepy lol

[@ashleywilson8033]

PICOP are now known as COSS (Controller Of Site Safety) if that’s any help :)

[@brianhunter7044]

A PICOP IS STILL A PICOP , A PICOW IS NOW A COSS

[@ashleywilson8033]

@@brianhunter7044 thank you for that, I got it mixed up. :)

[@abeattie5914]

PIC and COSS are separate now

[@ACAIDC]

I thought drivers were supposed to travel at a reduced speed when they know people are working on the track so they can stop in time.

[@iainstenhouse8399]

Most of the time they still run at line speed, some specific forms of work may require trains to be run at reduced speed

[@highwindsclarke2685]

Great video. 9:35

[@beyergarret123]

Never had all that when I was doing lookout duty in the 70s, on our length all the blokes knew every inch of track so no need to tell 'em where was safe.. my first lookout job after finishing the course was on a curving four road junction on the MML, no second lookout, just me, H&S wasn't quite so intense back then, but we all lived to tell the tale..

[@dkbmaestrorules]

You might have done, but plenty didn't...there's a reason the rules are stricter now.

[@MCBhangramuffin]

0.27 is that Ian Wright?!

[@Del-bm]

Very educational

[@ethancampbell6076]

6:09 Right How many feet to see each other on the cess?

[@DougPaulley]

God that looked bitterly cold and raw

[@TheCoomer]

Would like to know what year this was produced. Perhaps mid 90's

[@DavidR_192]

1985

[@WickerMan73]

Didnt this narrator do the what to do in a nuclear attack.

[@jessiematthews4224]

Ahh, protect and survive? That's the voice...

[@DaimosZ]

@@jessiematthews4224 that narrator wasn't Patrick Allen though

[@TheDillon1987]

Is that a young Ian Write ? 😂

[@hilzzz99]

when was it recorded?

[@cantthinkofaname3344]

Late 1980s

[@hilzzz99]

@@cantthinkofaname3344 cheers mate

[@AluminumOxide]

1985

[@mutantthegreat7963]

If you look carefully, Ian faked getting hit by a train. 0:51

[@nancylynette4060]

I’m so scared that someone will get hit, I’ll have to wait and see EDIT: OMG HE GOT HIT 😬😬😬😥😥😱😱

[@RichardAndewSwayne]

0:49 Death by Duff!

[@ennardsisterlegocation2946]

RichardAndewSwayne more like accident train kill

[@BritishRailProductions]

It's a Brush Du** is for those people who don't like the Class

[@ArcturanMegadonkey]

So, how is that bloke that got hit by the train? is he ok?

[@DavidR_192]

It wasn't real.

[@javidmirza4584]

About time England made their train horns louder.

[@MatStuff]

Its deafening

[@casondrarawr3410]

I live in America, why am I watching this? 😂

[@TheCoomer]

If you ever find yourself on the train track you will be glad you have

[@SgtChip]

The algorithm has determined that we would be entertained by it. In my case it was correct.

[@TorrentUK]

Ian survived the accident but is now a cabbage living in Droitwich.

[@milehighclassics]

Good old navi in a suit

[@thephoenix3155]

This video looks like it's from the 80s or the 90s.

[@droge192]

Has Class 321 trains in, so at least 1988. I reckon between 1990ish.

[@GBPaddling]

6mins 55secs..........They ALL stepped on the sleeper, ha ha.

[@geoffreylee5199]

English trains need louder horns. Brighter lights too.

[@LP_LP_LP_LP]

This was filmed 30 years ago

[@jetodessa5484]

Always seems to come down to lack of concentration and awareness

[@luckyapplemo2256]

1:01 hope you got life insurance mate

[@delticcs2743]

BY23? Those aren't phonetics!

[@marcuspotter5590]

They weren't used back then!

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

BR

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

It’s weird to think this was the same railway as those steam engines in the 50s

[@bennickss]

Iff the 47 didn’t have a pathetic horn, maybe he wouldn’t have died Also TAWS sounds strangely disturbing

[@bukachell]

I would rather be the look out