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Originally Posted by John H-T
Many thanks Peter.
No. 3 will be working the incline this weekend propelling one of the DMU trailer cars. We were going to use the inspection salloon but it only takes 18! We don't have a brake coach in traffic at present and the guard has to be able to have a good view of the line and a vac brake handle to stop the train if necessary.
I will be on the footplate on Saturday (early get up!) and around on Sunday so hope some of you can make it.
Best wioshes,
John H-T.
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I have taken the Officers saloon from Knottigley all over West Yorkshire ending up being relieved at Engine Shed Junction, Leeds.(outside Holbeck Shed).
The guards duty was to watch out for anything that would effect the safe running of the train.
There was a whistle(Horn) and a jigger(Vac Brake) where the guard sat.
What has the guard on your train provided with to warn wandering souls in the 4 foot?
Do you use back to back radios to be in touch with the driver or do you just have the vac brake?
When I first started on the railway, I was on a Huddersfield to Penistone DMU. When the driver changed ends at Penistone he could not get the power.
The driver went in the back cab and drove from there.
My job was to control the movement on the internal buzzer, from the leading cab.
When we came out of Denby Dale tunnel, CWJ22 was showing a red aspect.
I gave the driver the buzzer for him to slow down, then when we were 25 yards from this signal one long buzz and he stopped. When the signal came off, I gave him 2 on the buzzer and away we went.
We then came off the branch at Springwood Jct, Huddersfield and onto platform 4, with no problems.
This was just a case of team working and both of us having route knowledge and the will to do it.
This was in the rule book and a permitted move with a DMU.
I have found out that when propelling, you need a very clear understanding with the driver what you are going to do, I do not brief the inspector on the footplate or the fire man and his dog.
I speak to the person who makes the train move and above all the person who is in charge of the traction unit who makes the train stop.
There is an old saying ; ' Too many cooks spoil the broth.'