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Train stopped by failure M2 Flashcards

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If your train fails

Who must you immediately inform if your train fails?

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If your train is stopped by failure, you must immediately tell the signaller about the circumstances and whether you need an assisting train.

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Agreeing the arrangements

If an assisting train is needed, what must you and the signller both agree before assistance is needed?

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If an assisting train is needed, you must both agree:

  • The exact location of the failed train
  • That the failed train will not be moved
  • The type of assisting train needed
  • The direction from which it is needed.
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Making sure the failed train is safe

After you have asked for assistance, you must not move your train until:

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  • The assisting train arrives,
  • You have agreed alternative arrangements with the signaller and anyone else concerned.
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Making sure your train is safe

What lights needs to be displayed for the approach of an assisting train?

  • Rear
  • Front
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You must make sure that:

  • If assistance will be coming from the rear, a red light is displayed at the rear of your failed train
  • If assistance will be coming from the front, a white light is displayed at the front of your failed train.

If you are on a single line and are in possession of the token, you must keep the token until the assisting train arrives.

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Apart from the signaller, who must you inform before leaving the train to carry out protection.

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Before you leave the failed train to carry out protection, you must tell the guard (if provided):

  • That you are leaving the train to carry out protection
  • The direction from which assistance will be provided, if known.
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What module is Train stopped by failure?

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Train stopped by failure M2

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Providing assistance protection

Your train has failed and permissive working is in operation. What protection do you need to lay?

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You do not need to provide assistance protection where permissive working is in operation.

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Standard arrangement

Explain the process of laying assistance protection?

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  • You must place three detonators 20 meters (20 yards) apart on the failed line
  • Detonators must be placed 300 meters (300 yards) from your train in the direction from which the assistance will approach.
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Providing emergency protection (ESW TBW)

If a train approaches before you reach the full protection distance, what must you do?

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You must immediately place three detonators on the line and show a hand danger signal to the driver.

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Protection involving a stop signal or block marker

You must place the protection at a stop signal or block marker in the direction from which the assisting train will approach, if:

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  • The signal or block marker is less than 300 metres (approximately 300 yards) from where your failed train is standing
  • The signaller can confirm that this stop signal or block marker is protecting your failed train.
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Change of direction for assistance

If you are carrying out assistance protection and the signaller tells you that the assisting train will be coming from the opposite direction, you must:

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  • pick up any detonators that you had placed on the line
  • Carry out assistance protection in the other direction.
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Protecting the failed train with emergency protection

If your train has failed and you cannot contact the signaller immediately, you only need to carry out emergency protection when your train has failed within:

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  • An emergency special working section
  • A temporary block working section.
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Providing emergency protection (ESW & TBW)

After placing standard assistance protection in rear of your train, you must continue until:

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  • You have reached the full protection distance of 2 kilometres (approximately 1¼ miles), where you must place three detonators on the line 20 metres (approximately 20 yards) apart,
  • You can communicate with the signaller.
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Providing emergency protection (ESW TBW)

If you reach a telephone linked to a signal box, or reach a signal box, within the full protection distance, you must:

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  • First place three detonators on the line at the telephone or at the signal box
  • Speak to the signaller.
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Providing emergency protection (ESW TBW)

If you reach a tunnel entrance before reaching the full protection distance you must:

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  • You must place three detonators at the tunnel entrance.

If the full protection distance then falls inside the tunnel, you must continue through the tunnel to the far end and place three detonators there.

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Waiting for the assisting train to arrive

Staying at the assistance protection point

You must stay at the assistance protection point and wait for the assisting train to arrive, except if:

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  • You still need to speak to the signaller, in which case you must continue as far as necessary
  • You have placed the assistance protection detonators within a tunnel, in which case you must continue through the tunnel to the far end and wait there
  • You have to carry out emergency protection.
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Waiting for the assisting train to arrive

What hand signal do you need to show the driver of the approaching assisting train?

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You must display a hand danger signal to the driver of the assisting train when it approaches.

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Signaller allowing the assisting train to enter the section

What will the signaller tell you regarding the failed train?

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The signaller will tell the driver of the assisting train:

  • The exact location of the failed train
  • How the failed train is protected
  • The point from which the assisting train will be met
  • Where the failed train must be taken to.
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Assisting train moving towards the failed train

What speed must you proceed at towards the failed train during the movement?

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You must proceed at caution and keep a look out for, and stop to pick up, the driver of the failed train.

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Assisting train moving towards the failed train

You must only enter a tunnel if?

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You must only enter a tunnel if:

  • You have already picked up the driver of the failed train
  • You know that the driver of the failed train is not in the tunnel and that the tunnel is clear.

You must stop immediately on exploding detonators.

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Assisting train moving towards the failed train

If you have not already picked up the driver of the failed train, or the driver is not waiting at the assistance protecting point, you must?

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You must:

  • Stay at that location
  • Wait for the driver of the failed train to arrive.

After you have been told the exact location of the failed train, you must proceed at caution towards the train.

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Driver of the failed train conducting the assisting train

What cab must you travel in?

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You must get in the driving cab of the assisting train and tell the driver the exact location of the failed train.

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Coupling to the failed train

If you are the driver of the assisting train, you must make sure that:

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  • Your train is coupled to the failed train
  • The automatic brake, if compatible, is connected.
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When the failed train is being assisted

If you are the driver of the train that is assisting at the rear of the failed train, you must:

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  • Temporarily isolate the TPWS before the movement starts
  • Reinstate the TPWS when the movement is finished.
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When the failed train is being assisted

when can you use the train radio, to speak to another driver regarding the movement of the train?

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You can use the train radio to speak to the other driver at any time during the journey about how the movement is to be:

  • Started
  • Stopped
  • Controlled
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On a single line worked by token

You are the driver at the leading end of the movement. What must you do with the token, whilest still in the section?

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If you are the driver at the leading end of the movement, you must keep the token until both trains are clear of the section.

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