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Courtly love

28 Thursday Jun 2012

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You know when you think you know something and then you suddenly look at it in a new light? That just happened to me with The Moody Blues.

A car went belting past with the stereo blaring. It was ‘Nights in White Satin’. Or was it? Was it perhaps ‘Knights in White Satin’?

I’ve always assumed it was ‘nights’ but I realised I didn’t definitely know. So I thought about the lyric. And…well, it could go either way. Of course, a quick google tells me the answer but where’s the fun in that? It’s sometimes much better to work out something from each perspective and try to find a balance in the middle. That’s something I learned from an English lecture on the roots of tlanguage. Or was it the routes of language? Anyway, Try seeing it from the ‘knight’ perspective. I think it works. 🙂

Knights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters I’ve written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty I’d always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I can’t say anymore.

‘Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.

Gazing at people,
Some hand in hand,
Just what I’m going thru
They can understand.

Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end,

And I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

Knights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters I’ve written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty I’d always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I can’t say anymore.

‘Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

‘Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

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Guess who is haunting me in the tunnels now?

09 Monday Apr 2012

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hrmmm, oddness, photography, train, tube, tunnel, yikes

I haven’t been posting much lately. Partly because I’ve been busy with the Bloomsbury Pro Choice Alliance (whose glorious adventures can be found here) and partly because I’ve been placed in the Pigeon Stalkees Witness Protection Programme.

I live in fear for my very life.

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It’s perfectly ok to pull the passenger alarm

01 Thursday Sep 2011

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hrmmm, meh, passengers, srs bsns, train, tube, yikes

I’ve been on holiday recently. I’ve been driving for two days now and both have been somewhat chaotic in one way or another. Signal failures, unexpectedly high passenger numbers, late running, odd instructions, lost trains, trains doing the timetable in reverse and panicky managers who think they might have lost a couple of drivers somewhere have been some highlights. It’s good to be back. 🙂

Less good was an incident last night. I’m not going to say much about it as I’m hopeful that the police will be able to make some headway and this will come to court. But the upshot was a smashed up train and a passenger with head injuries. And a conversation with another passenger about how, when and why to use passenger emergency alarms. As I’ve had this conversation several times over the years I’m going to try to explain how the system works in the hope that word will slowly get around and people can stop worrying.

Worrying, is a big thing with pulling emergency alarms. They are big and red and carry all sorts of ominous warnings about dire consequences if they are misused. Lot’s of people worry that their situation is not serious enough to warrant pulling the alarm. If you are that sort of person then please get on a train and pull an alarm – because you are not the sort of person those warnings are aimed at.

There’s an odd circumstance where the people we want to tell not to pull emergency alarms are the very people who are most likely to pull one. These are the people who get frustrated that their train has run slowly or been delayed and who pull the alarm and run away when they arrive at their station. This doesn’t bother either the driver or London Underground in the slightest as we were all there anyway. What it does is to further delay the other passengers as we reset things and try to find the person having the “emergency”. Conversely, the people we most want to pull the alarm are least likely to do so. On several occasions I’ve noticed people racing up the platform and not attempting to board the train. Given the odd behaviour I’ve waited and when they reach the front they’ll explain that there’s something dreadful going on in my train. After they’ve got their breath back of course. I’ve never been able to fathom why they didn’t just pull the alarm and I have absolutely no idea how to rectify this situation but I’ll give a few examples of when it’s appropriate to pull the alarm. But first, the science bit.

Each handle is linked into a few electrical systems on the train. When pulled this has three main consequences. The first is that the brakes apply. Not an emergency brake but the train will stop. The second is that an alarm sounds in the driver’s cab to tell them why their train has suddenly stopped. Traditionally this alarm is fixed at the typical London Underground setting of ‘OH MY GOD WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE’ and you’ll be lucky if the driver doesn’t immediately expire of fright at the sound of it. Fortunately the alarm on my train is more gentle, meaning I can be of some practical help. And the third thing that happens is a light shines on the car in which the alarm was pulled. There’s often a second alarm in the car too though not on all trains. This helps staff locate the area where the alarm was pulled.

So the alarm gets pulled and the train stops. What happens next depends on the circumstances. If any part of the train is in a station it will stop there, the driver will inform the Voices and have station staff sent down to assist and an announcement will be made letting everyone know what’s going on and asking whomever pulled the alarm to make themselves known to staff. That last bit is important – we’re not psychic. And on many trains we have a facility called talkback which means the driver can speak to the person who pulled the alarm and get details of what’s going on.

If the train is not in a station then much of the above takes place but in a different order. The train will brake but the driver is able to override this and keep it moving in order to get to the next station. It is astonishingly rare that we would investigate an incident outside of a station as it is too difficult to get any further assistance down the tunnels to the train. If we need ambulances or the police or to evacuate then that’s all much more easily done from a station.

So when should you pull the alarm? Well ideally, not when you’ve woken up and realised you’ve just missed your stop. And not when you’ve heard the chimes, sprinted to force your way through the closing doors and then realised that you’ve left your mates behind on the platform. Just get off at the next station and wait for them to arrive. Also, not when the train is sitting between stations for a long time and the driver has already told you that there is going to be a lengthy delay. These things are all annoying and frustrating but they are not emergencies; they’re just the minor trials of life.

Left your kid? Pull the alarm? Pile of puke/blood/poo/other on the floor? Pull the alarm. We don’t want biohazards around our passengers. You or another passenger injured or taken seriously unwell? Pull it. Fire, smoke, burning smell – we really like it if you pull the alarm then. Really. Fires of some sort are reasonably common on an electric railway but we really like to stop them before they really start. It is my opinion that London Underground is permanently on fire in some way but that’s no reason to go ignoring it.

What else? Abandoned luggage? Yes, we like to know about that. The vast majority of the time the thing is perfectly safe. I can count on the fingers of one hand the times we’ve had dangerous things left. But please still pull the alarm because whoever lost it would like it back. It’s incredibly easy to leap off your train and forget something. If it’s something smaller like a wallet or shoes or whatever then just let other passengers know you’re going to hand it in and give it to a member of staff. Often we have staff on platforms making announcements so conceivably you can nip out and hand over a wallet and get back on your train without any delay.

Remember what I said about losing your friends? Well that’s not an emergency but if your friends happen to be children or similarly vulnerable people then pull the alarm.

The last reason I can think of is for general disorder on the train. If there’s a fight going on near you or if someone is being threatened. If the train is being vandalised then pull the alarm. If you see something dangerous like an open external door or someone falling from the train (rare, but it happens) then pull the alarm. Essentially if you feel in danger or you perceive that harm may come to another person or the train then please pull the alarm. We won’t be cross.

Two more things: Consider all the reasons I’ve given for which the emergency alarm should be pulled. Many of those are going to be times when the train cannot continue to run with passengers. Either because it is damaged or because there is potential danger in the form of biohazards or fire or similar. So if you hear the driver of your train make an announcement about a passenger alarm then please be aware that you may be asked to leave the train quite soon. And the faster you can do that the sooner the problem train can be removed. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been detraining and someone has asked me when the next train will arrive. Now logically two trains cannot occupy the same space so there is never going to be another train until the first one has moved on. And the second one will be right quick. Because it’s been held at the signal behind while the problem train is sorted out. So be ready to scoot off and let the driver close up quickly and get out of there.

Finally, if you do witness an incident like an assault or vandalism then please provide your details. We absolutely understand that you’re trying to get somewhere and might not have time to wait for the police to arrive but they could still do with hearing your version of events. You could pass your name and mobile number to a member of staff and ask them to give it to the police when they arrive or you could call your local station later and let them know you were a witness. They’ll be able to contact whichever officers are investigating and they’ll call you back to get your statement. Quite often staff are not in the place where something is happening and can’t provide any good witness statements. Last night all I could do was give a time and an approximate location which is not much to go on. And I confess that there was so much going on that I forgot to ask for the details of the passengers who had been witnesses though I hope the station superviser remembered to. The really important people to a police investigation are those in the back who can see what’s going on. So please let either us or the police know who you are so that incidents can be investigated. And don’t be afraid to pull the alarm in an emergency.

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Irony

22 Sunday May 2011

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hrmmm, irony - i duz it, not-trains, oddness, photography

And yes, it is still a functioning church.

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We’ve got some work to do now

02 Monday May 2011

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easter eggs, hrmmm, oddness, passengers, train, tunnel

Some days are slightly stranger than others. This was one of them.

I thought things had gone a bit odd when I noticed Scooby Doo ambling up the platform and into the first car of the train. He was followed by a gang of no-doubt pesky kids. This is an unusual sight for London, even on a weekend. So unusual that a driver walking up another platform came zipping over to tell me about it. Presumably in case I hadn’t spotted the seven foot great dane walking on its hind legs. Ho hum.

Then things got slightly more odd when not one but two passengers got off my train, ran up the platform, leapt into the air and clicked their heels together. These were completely different people, at different times and in different places. Unless Mary Poppins is in the area I can only assume it’s Spring madness. That or they’re all on scooby snacks.

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Keep Calm and Carry On

18 Friday Mar 2011

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hrmmm, mini adventure, srs bsns, weirdness, yikes

I have ceased dancing in trains. OK, that’s an out and out lie, I admit it. I still dance. But lately you are more likely to see me hurtling past with a pensive look and a scant regard for braking distances. Other times you might see my train flying into a station with apparently no driver as I am doubled up with laughter. Or you might see me skidding round a bend in the track with a look of horror on my face. Though now that I think of it, that happens sometimes anyway. Seriously? Those shoes with THAT coat? And what the hell have you done to that poodle?!

At present my emotional rollercoaster ride is not caused by the fashion faux pas of the travelling public. It’s because a friend has started a new job. He is now our Emergency Planning Manager. This is a big responsibility and not as poggs queried, because he spends his day planning emergencies for us to have.

Or….is it?

I’ve found myself itching to email over a few queries about his new role. Such as, for example, what he plans to do if there’s a sudden zombie invasion? And what happens if somebody pulls the plug out of the Thames one day? Has he figured out how well a train floats? And is it really true that water will would surge up the Bakerloo and Northern lines as far as Paddington and King’s X respectively? What happens if somebody cocks up with a tunnel boring monster machine again as happened few years ago. What am I supposed to do if I suddenly encounter one of these in a tunnel? Are they like dentists’ drills and cut out when they encounter something soft like a traindriver? Or will they just keep going? And do we have contingency plans for moving around them? OH MY GOD! HOW DO I STEER??? HOW DO I STEER??????????? Suppose there’s an earthquake and we sink upside down and have to get out as the water rises until…oh wait, that’s The Poseiden Adventure.

As you can see, the role of emergency planning manager is no simple undertaking. Not least because the current incumbent has some friends with wild imaginations and too much time to spend daydreaming. But it seems that I am not the only person ever to have considered the emergencies we might find ourselves having. For SNCF have seen fit to warn their customers not to leave the train lest they be eaten by a scary dinosaur. You know what that means, don’t you? Somewhere in France there’s somebody dreaming up insane emergencies and I’m betting that their name is Retardes Graves.

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The Accretion of Papal Authority From the Sack of Rome to the Deposition of Romulus Augustulus…

28 Monday Feb 2011

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…by Odovacar in 476 AD.

(Sorry, the title was a bit too long to fit in).

I was reading mitchy‘s blog about school the other day and that old maths question came up. You know the sort of thing: ‘If a train leaves London travelling North at 70mph and a second train leaves Edinburgh travelling South at 55mph then when do they meet?’. The correct answer obviously (to my mind) being that THEY NEVER MEET BECAUSE THEY ARE ON DIFFERENT TRACKS AND THIS IS EXACTLY HOW IT SHOULD BE AND YOU SHOULD NOT BE SENDING TRAINS HAMMERING TOWARDS EACH OTHER. EVER. EVEREVEREVEREVER.

Of course that’s just my take on things. I fully appreciate that there are people who have no issue with trains driving towards one another. I also fully appreciate that the world is filled with crazy people but that’s not the point. The point is that when that sort of pointless question you get at school was mentioned I suddenly realised. I work that stuff out all the time!

This was a huge revelation to me because I truly didn’t realise how often I’m doing it. Tonight, for example we had me on the line and I was running late. So as I crawled along I was doing lots of mental arithmetic along the lines of ‘OK, it’s 8pm so if it takes x minutes to travel to y and then z minutes to change ends and be released out of the platform except I think that train behind me is running out of sequence so they’ll probably turn that around first although it’s 5 minutes behind me so potentially not so we’ll call that z+/-8 and then it takes x+1.5 minutes to drive back because it’s uphill and then I need to tip out which will take s minutes if the passengers are paying attention although t minutes if they are all ignoring the announcements or drunk or something then I can finish only u minutes late BUT if this train in front doesn’t get a flaming move on it will take x+4.5 minutes to get to…’. And so on. If I have to switch trains then it’s even more complicated.

I got so bogged down there that I’ve forgotten the point. Oh I remember now. My point was that even when I was in primary school working out these stupid maths problems I always subscribed to the viewpoint that they were completely pointless and would serve no purpose when I was a grownup. How wrong I was. Of course, at the time I wanted to be a vet so I paid much more attention to things like how to correctly spell ‘hippopotamus’ and that question about ‘If the shepherd has a field full of sheep what’s the best way to count them?’ (Count the legs and divide by four) because those seemed much more useful for my preferred career path. I just sighed and tutted when it came to train questions and tried to blow through them quickly.

But now I’m wondering what other lessons I may have paid scant attention to at school. Because clearly the train questions were incredibly useful only I didn’t realise it at the time. I was too busy learning how many spots a ladybird has and other such foolishness. I’ve always thought that this is not the sort of job where education is required for the surface elements*. But apparently I was thoroughly educated in aspects of driving trains when I was a very small child and I didn’t even know it. Life turns out strangely sometimes.

I’ve posted this before but I like it so here it is again:

*Of course, the value of education to any position is immense but the practicalities of my job are learnt as we go and it’s not necessary to be an academic type to do well here.

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Which side are you on?

28 Tuesday Dec 2010

Posted by severedelays in Uncategorized

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easter eggs, hrmmm, irony - i duz it, strike, weirdness

I have repeatedly said (although perhaps not on here) that the people on my line are all insane or on drugs or something. Frequently I do not understand what is going on and yet it somehow all works and usually works well. Long ago I resolved to never question it and just trundle off where they told me to. Someone else can keep an eye on the big picture. It’s easier that way.

Today, however, I believe we have reached the point where I’m going to have to start asking questions. I’ve been working out what question to ask and so far I’ve got “Um….excuse me…?”. After that it peters out a bit but you will understand why when I explain. Why am I wasting time prerambling and not explaining? Well…it’s difficult.

I think today I witnessed a new low in industrial relations being achieved. On the one side I had London Underground management (boo! hiss!) and on the other I had the ASLEF union (huzzah!). The point of view of the managers (boo! hiss!) was that I should be on strike while the union (huzzah!) felt that I shouldn’t (wait…wut?!). Possibly it’s less of a new low and more of a new sideways.

If you happened to read my blog from earlier in the month you’ll recall that I was sent on holiday and was due to return to work on the 26th December. Which was a day when there were no NR trains to bring me back to London and also the day on which ASLEF were having a strike. Now long before all the arguing started I had asked for the 26th and 27th as annual leave with my two spare days. I hadn’t heard anything so I spoke to a manager about it in November and he assured me that it would be fine and he’d process it himself. Except…

Except that Head Office decided a few weeks later that nobody was to get leave on the 26th as there was going to be a strike. The only problem is they decided this when I was already on holiday. Nobody at work bothered to phone and tell me about this because…well because I was away on holday, wasn’t I?! So now there is a strange situation where I have a manager is trying to gently lead me to consider being on strike and a union rep who agrees that I was on holiday and not striking. Like I say, a new sideways.

I’m not entirely sure how this is going to pan out. I suspect there will be some dark incantations muttered over the SAP demon and it will all go away. Although to get to that point there might have to be all sorts of negotiating and arguing and foot stomping. Hell, we might even go on strike over it. 😉

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Double yellow

22 Friday Oct 2010

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It was an interesting sort of day. With all sorts of peculiar things done with trains. The strangest of which began when I was happily zipping down the line without a care in the world. The radio chirruped and one of The Voices informed me that he was confiscating my train. Naturally I was distraught but was soon comforted by the knowledge that he just wanted me to swap trains with someone else. We call it a stock and crew changeover. These are done for various reasons but mostly because earlier disruption has put the trains all out of sequence. At some point you need to put it back together again and one of the ways that can happen is by putting the train back to it’s original service pattern and switching in a driver who was working to that pattern.

So far so good except two minutes later the Voice mentioned that he was confiscating my train again. Well, not him, exactly. The depot had decided that my train needed working on and wanted it returned to them. This is a very odd situation as we would never normally take a train out of service for work but lately the maintenance crews have not been working overtime. As there are not enough of them employed there have been a number of middling-to-serious defects not attended to. Apparently my new train had such a defect and was now about to be repaired. So I was to take it into the depot and swap to yet another train and bring that out instead. Confused yet?

On entry to any depot a driver calls up the Train Movements Room which is generally known as ‘The Tower’. The Tower contains a Voice who oversees movement of trains within the depot. The Voice today firstly told me where to stable my train and then where to find my replacement. I repeated back the message to him and trundled off to the pits.

Pits are usually found in sheds. They allow access to the underside of the train and are pretty much identical to inspection pits for cars other than being very, very long. The only way a pit road differs from a normal road is that it tends not to have any power rails. It is just two running rails suspended over a five-foot drop. The train cannot move once it is on a pit road unless the depot crew use what amounts to an extension lead to plug it into the power supply. The absence of power rails is so that staff can work in safety so any train brought onto a pit road will be stopped ‘off juice’. That is, in a position where no part of the train comes into contact with the power rails which stop just before the pit.

Driving onto a pit road is always a little bit tricky. Not least because you are hovering over the aforementioned five-foot drop. Usually before a pit road starts there is a large walkway where people can cross. This means the power rails stop some distance from the pit. So to get onto the pit road and right to the far end you need to give the train a bit of a boost so that you don’t find yourself grinding to a halt halfway. The whole proceedings would be much easier if it weren’t for the fact that the train is being driven into an area where people are walking around and potentially distracted by work and which therefore has a speed limit of 5mph. Trying to boost the train forwards while also keeping approximately to the speed limit and not running anyone over is a difficult combination.

Today I was spared the usual mental gymnastics by a rather odd sight in my pit road. It was another train. I stopped just outside the shed and mentioned this to the Tower Voice. He responded with an incisive “Oh. Is there?”. The Tower Voice cannot ‘see’ on his systems whether there is a train in these sheds or not because the fact there is no power to any rail means he is effectively blinded. But still, he should have known he’d already put a train in that particular road. It was certainly completely obvious to everyone who stopped work to stroll over and stare at me that there should be only one train in this area and no attempt at two should be made. This appeared to flummox The Voice as much as it flummoxed me and our radio conversation was a little less than our normally professional standards:

“So what’s the plan then?”

“Um…dunno…um…just leave that one there”.

“Seriously? Just abandon my train here?!”

“Yeah”.

“Um…ok then”.

So I did. Actually I didn’t. As I attempted to abandon it a few of the more curious members of the growing crowd enquired of my plans for that train and where did I think I was going and didn’t I know that they needed to work on that train and have I gapped it or something? I pointed out that they should finish playing with one train and put it away before taking out the next and stalked off towards the depot manager’s office to ask him WTF. Other than a bit of head-scratching I didn’t get much out of him other than an enquiry as to the possibility of double-decker trains and confirmation that it was OK to just abandon the train there. It’s really not done to just leave trains lying about the place. Every depot is laid out with very specific places for trains and abandoning one in a strange place is a recipe for trouble.

After that the day got…well it got more interesting but that’s a story for another time…

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Train of Thought

12 Sunday Sep 2010

Posted by severedelays in Uncategorized

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hrmmm, muppets, train

So there I am, driving along in an empty train and belting out Gloria Gaynor’s greatest hits* at the top of my lungs when the radio chirrups at me. Yay, it’s a signaller!

Signaller: Hello driver**, it’s the signaller here***. Your train is supposed to run empty from A to B and then get stabled at C. What say you we just skip the second part of that and just run you straight from A to C?

SD: Oh, ok. No problem whatsoever. And I must say the radio communication on this line has improved VASTLY because usually I have to explain all that detail when I come to write these stories out.

At which point I continue on my way to point C. My thought process went something like this:

Tum te tum…by my side…doo be doo…

So, lessee now. What do I need to know for this madcap scheme which I have never done before….? Got shot of passengers – check. Aware of the speed limits…um…well there’ll be signs. Know where the relevant signals are…they’re usually quite well-lit, skip that one, I’ll work it out when I get there. Fully understand the extent of the manouevre? Ummmm…I suppose I’ll stop when I run out of track. Actually…how *do* I get across there? There’s no route that I can think of…

OK, this looks like one of my signals…oh hey, why is it telling me to turn that way…oh wow, I never noticed points there before! I wonder where they go…probably down there…oh no, apparently not. OK, better slow this down a little so that I’ve got more time to watch points and check for more signals. Oops, not that slow, don’t want to run out of juice over gaps and end up stuck…there we go, that’s a nice trundle.

Now where am I going? Say, doesn’t this route take me into the station? OK, I know all routes by definition take me into a station but that generally involves a big hole in the middle of the station. This seems to be taking me…into…the station. How pissed off is the station superviser going to be if I end up in his office?…Slow down a bit more! OK, now that’s just ridiculous, you’re going uphill, you tard. That’s better. Oh, I see, we go up here now and into the wrong platform. Isn’t this the part they mentioned in training where you’re sposed to call the signaller before accepting the next signal? But I already spoke to him ten minutes ago when he told me to do this. Does that count? Should I call again? What if he thinks I’m a tard or gets annoyed or something? His signal cabin is only over there and his window is open. Would it be better to peep the whistle and ask him when he’s leaning out the window? But what if I interrupt him when he’s watching Corrie? He might be more annoyed at having to stand up and lean out the window than just answering a radio call. Are they allowed to watch Corrie when they are in between trains? It’s kinda quiet up this branch so they must spend a lot of their day just sitting waiting for trains. What time is Corrie on anyway? What if he’s watching X-Factor?

OK…well…the signal is clear and I know how to do this bit. Should I go ahead and do it? Maybe I should just wait here for a moment. The signaller might suddenly feel a need to stretch and look out the window and have a friendly word with a passing traindriver…oh shit, there are passengers coming on the platform now. I’ll bet they want to get on my train in a minute, I’m going to have to go. OK, I’ve done this before in training. How hard can it be? Well very hard obviously but I suppose if it all goes wrong I can just stop the train and we can sort it out and I’ve not been here very long so they might not tell me off too much even if I do shut down the line or set fire to something by accident…OK, in here now and I need to stop in a sec.

Where do I stop? Why the hell do we not have big flashing neon arrows pointing at the ground saying ‘stop here you tard’ on them? Who the hell thought that a stopping diamond on the track was a good idea? Say, if I write that idea down and send it to head office will I get a ten pound voucher for having saved the company money? Well, I suppose it doesn’t save money exactly. It would probably cost more to have big flashing neon arrows. But on the plus side, nobody would drive into station supervisers’ offices if there was a big flashing neon arrow so it saves money on rebuilding costs. Oh oh oh! I see it. Oh that’s easy. Now all I have to do is shut down and walk the unfamiliar route out of this siding and back to the station. No problem whatsoever. 🙂

Traindriving. Not always done by the competent professionals you think we are. 😉

* You think I’m joking but I assure you I’m not. Stop judging me!
** Does anyone else think it’s ridiculously funny that they start a radio call with “Hello, Driver”? It’s so cute!
*** So is that!

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