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Old 6th October 2007, 08:22
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Originally Posted by paul miller View Post
I do know that, in extreme cases, his train operator has had to get court orders to allow them to cut lineside vegetation down. If that is still the case I dont know, but in one instance he told me the drivers could not see a distant signal due to vegetation.
Things have improved recently. Nowadays inability to see a signal counts as a signal malfunction, so a driver would fill out the infamous RT3185 form. Once that report is entered into the system NR is required to sort it out.....and pay for the delays which it caused to train running.
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