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Old 3rd August 2019, 11:22
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Hi Steve. Many moons ago we had a guy who had a stop short, and a few years later a station overrun. He tried to tell the beak that it averaged out right, but for some reason they wouldn't wear it. By his own admission he wasn't really one for 'precision driving', as he also bumped the stops at a London Terminus, and cheerfully explained to us that he'd now reduced our walk to the messroom by 2ft. They eventually got rid of him, which was a shame as he was a lovely guy, but in all honesty you wouldn't really want your family to travel on his train.

If you do want to 'set a train back' the Rulebook allows you to go as far as 400 yards, if the signaller will let you. It's the one occasion that you don't need to change your lights over, so that you're running with reds on the 'front' and whites at the rear (which used to be a Rules exam question).

It's pretty straightforward with a double-ender like an HST (Class 43), you just change ends and use the other cab, making sure that you don't mangle any trailing points, since you're making an unsignalled move.

But it's a right PITA with a loco hauled set because sticking yer head out the window and looking back won't cut it nowadays. Presumably on the Caledonian Sleeper, the guard/conductor can open the rear door and talk the driver through the movement with a wony-tonky or telephone ?

Anyway...poor buggers. Nobody likes to see their colleagues on the naughty step when the vicious UK press has got wind of it.

Cheers, BW.
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