It's always fun watching things on KZfaq regarding trains while on some sort of substance or scheduled narcotic 😂

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@@JJVernig thank you. That music made me feel so empowered that I secured a 300% payrise and disrupted an international diamond smuggling ring.

@@ProfessorPesca 😂 Happy to made your day...

@@ProfessorPesca 5:26 is more appropriate to our increasingly surreal and bizarre era I feel...

And they were rather heavyweight as well! Those workstations were set up so that the CRT units could be removed/replaced from the back. Remember, that in those days (1988/89) flat screen displays like the one in front of me just now did not exist. Around the same time, some places were using projection displays, but in those cases they were used rather like display panels only, in the main. The display units used had a screen format of 4:3 (roughly), and that kind of dictated how layouts were presented, so that they could be accommodated within the available equipment. The one mentioned in the footage was designed for London Liverpool Street, and I think it’s true that it was the first one to be commissioned, but soon followed by some others, notably London Marylebone (which I had a bit to do with) in late 1989.

Very true, electronic signalling, as any electronics often fails, relay signalling is far more reliable and easier to work with, thankfully I maintain Birmingham (new street) which is still relay interlocking, until it gets replaced in a few years time with electronics, and that’s when I’ll retire thank you

its BR it dont need to make sence it just need to be dangerous as thats what thay are so good at seeing there where 7 major accidents from 1980 to 1984 in the uk lol

@@brickleyyard4966 and how many of those were caused by signalling - approximately?

@@brickleyyard4966 I hope you're not making a case for privatisation with Railtrack's safety record !

Do you have adenoids?

IECCs are still used in some places they are gradually being updated and replaced in some places. Some however if I’m not mistaken are still very similar to this.

Also in places older PSBs power signal boxes are still in use too. There used to be one at Swindon which has been preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre

I've seen the green panels still in use nowadays in documentaries, but with modern LCD monitors in place of the *VDUs*

The green panels (known as NX) are in very common use even though they date from the 1970s. IECC is still in use and has evolved into scalable IECC. And of course there are still some lever frames out there

modern in the 1980s. some of the green panels are actually still in use! but with modern LCD monitors in place of the *VDUs*

They do, though we’re supposed to call them “signallers” in political correct speak !

@@Satters I wanted to put railwayman on my daughters birth certificate, they wouldn't allow it , how very PC

@@Sam-bz1hr I was annoyed when the guard on a train told us `sorry for the delay, we're waiting for the signal person to give us the go ahead' or words to that effect. I don't know what these people do with words like mankind, I guess you're now meant to say humankind! I guess `signaller' isn't too bad.

So signallers at Liverpool Street are playing Pac-man - I really don't think so. You say "fact" - please explain.

Safety Critical environment. No games

@@WINSTANLEYOBXa So you hope. The signaler in the German Bad Aibling train crash was playing Dungeon Hunter 5 on his phone when 12 people were killed in a head-on.