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Title: Please assist with despatch. Post by: Oxonhutch on January 21, 2020, 15:26:57 This is a new one for me. Trained though I am to assist with despatch on my heritage line, I don't think my competence paperwork will stretch this far!
Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: infoman on January 21, 2020, 15:39:05 Unable to open file
Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: GBM on January 21, 2020, 16:05:24 Opened OK for me on desktop PC.
Strange one that; wouldn't expect any member of the public to know the dispatch procedure, so wouldn't expect the driver to take any notice of a 'public' dispatch. Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: old original on January 21, 2020, 16:15:47 Usually just an internal instruction, it seems to have found it's way onto the public board.
Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: IndustryInsider on January 21, 2020, 17:00:04 Usually just an internal instruction, it seems to have found it's way onto the public board. Happens quite often. There’s an additional ‘internal information’ field for such things to be put, but sometimes they get put in the public fields by mistake. Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: Oxonhutch on January 21, 2020, 17:58:41 Usually just an internal instruction, it seems to have found it's way onto the public board. That's good. Because part of my problem on modern stock is making sure that all the door handles are horizontal! ;D Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: TaplowGreen on January 21, 2020, 18:01:12 Bless them.....have they had a little tiff? Will they be talking to each other again tomorrow? :D
Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: grahame on February 18, 2020, 09:12:35 Another oddity from Cornwall ... not really worthy of its own thread, so piggybacking on "Please assist with dispatch"
Quote Cancellations to services between Liskeard and Looe Due to a shortage of train crew between Liskeard and Looe the line is blocked. How can train crew shortage block a line?? Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: brooklea on February 18, 2020, 09:37:14 Another oddity from Cornwall ... not really worthy of its own thread, so piggybacking on "Please assist with dispatch" In itself it can’t, but it can prevent the train needed to operate the branch service from leaving the depot, if there isn’t a driver to move it....Quote Cancellations to services between Liskeard and Looe Due to a shortage of train crew between Liskeard and Looe the line is blocked. How can train crew shortage block a line?? Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: old original on February 18, 2020, 10:42:02 This is a viable reason on the Looe branch as the guard has to manually change the points near Coombe Junction..
Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: LiskeardRich on February 18, 2020, 20:36:22 Looe branch has been a canal for about 48 hours, maybe shortage of flood clearance staff
Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: stuving on February 18, 2020, 20:50:20 Looe branch has been a canal for about 48 hours, maybe shortage of flood clearance staff Wrong kind of crew? How many first mates do GWR have? Title: Re: Please assist with despatch. Post by: smokey on March 14, 2020, 13:04:43 in the past up to 1948 the Great Western Railway had plenty of First Mates in it's Shipping fleet
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