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Originally Posted by 48111
But with the private run railway of today, it must mean that companys are not obliged to give any information to TRUST if they dont want to.
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Well if they want to run their trains on Network Rail metals they've
got to tell them about the train and where it's going.
When a train starts its journey, the signaller enters its details into his workstation. Unless it's a very short notice booking, the pathing details will already have been agreed between the Operating Company and Network Rail, and loaded into the computer. As the train moves across different workstations (signalling areas) and signal boxes its details are automatically passed on.
From then onwards TRUST follows its progress across the network, comparing its timing with the times of its allocated pathway. If it runs late, and/or causes delays to other trains it will generate delay charges for its operator.
Anybody with access to TRUST (or P2) can enquire where the train is, and also see a log of its progress compared against its booked path, which shows whether it has hit its timing points early, on time, or late.
HTH
FP