Train Stopped By Train Failure

Question 1

What must you do immediately if your train fails?

Answer 1

Contact Signaller, confirm if train needs assistance

Question 2

What are the four things you must confirm with the signaller if your train needs assistance?

Answer 2

1. Exact Location of the failed train
   2.That the failed Train will not be moved
   3.The type of assisting train needed
   4.The direction from which it is needed

Question 3

Do not move your train until:

Answer 3

Assisting Train Arrives or;

Alternative arrangements have been made with the signaller

Question 4

If assistance is coming from the rear, what colour light must be displayed at the rear of the failed train?

Answer 4

Red

Question 5

If assistance is coming from the front, what colour light must be displayed at the front of the failed train?

Answer 5

White

Question 6

If you are on a single line and have a token, what must you do with the token?

Answer 6

Keep it until assisting train arrives

Question 7

Before leaving the train to carry out protection, what must you tell the guard?

Answer 7

1. That you are leaving the train to carry out protection
2. What direction assistance will be coming from

Question 8

Where do you not need to provide assistance protection?

Answer 8

Where permissive working is in operation

Question 9

How far from your train, and in what direction should you place assistance protection?

Answer 9

300 yards in direction assistance will come from

Question 10

How many, and how far apart should detonators be placed

Answer 10

3 detonators, 20 meters apart

Question 11

When must you place protection at stop signal or block markers?

Answer 11

When stop signal or block marker occur before 300 meters in direction assistance will arrive from

Signaller can confirm that stop signal or block marker is protecting your failed train

Question 12

What must you do if when carrying out assistance protection the signaller tells you that assistance has changed and will be coming from the opposite direction?

Answer 12

Pick up any detonators you have placed down

Carry out assistance protection in the opposite direction

Question 13

When do you need to carry out emergency protection?

Answer 13

When your train has failed and you can’t contact signaller immediately in an emergency special working or Temporary block working area

Question 14

When carrying out emergency protection, how far must you then go for the full protection distance?

Answer 14

1 and a quarter miles

Question 15

What must you do when you have reached the full protection distance?

Answer 15

Lay three detonators 20 meters apart and display a red flag

Question 16

What must you do if a train approaches before you reach the full protection distance?

Answer 16

Immediately lay three detonators and display a red flag

Question 17

What must you do if you reach a telephone linked to a signal box, or signal box within the full protection distance?

Answer 17

Lay three detonators and speak to signaller

Question 18

What must you do if you reach a tunnel before the full protection distance?

Answer 18

Lay three detonators at the entrance

Question 19

What must you do if the full protection distance falls within the tunnel?

Answer 19

Continue to the end of the tunnel and lay three detonators

Question 20

What are the three exceptions to remaining at the assistance protection point?

Answer 20

1. If you need to continue on to reach telephone to speak to signaller
2. Protection area falls within tunnel
3. you have to carry out emergency protection

Question 21

As the assisting driver, when can you enter a tunnel?

Answer 21

If you have already picked the driver up or;
you are sure that the driver is not in the tunnel and it is clear

Question 22

What must you do when you explode detonators?

Answer 22

Stop immediately

Question 23

If you are assisting at the rear of the failed train, what must you do before the movement starts?

Answer 23

1. Temporarily isolate the TPWS before the movement starts

Question 24

What must you do when the movement finishes?

Answer 24

Reinstate TPWS