As my father is a signaller, and I watched this, he walked into the room as you said “ I’m sorry we were putting so much on signallers” he literally said out loud “that’s the first time I’ve seen somebody apologise honestly, and chuckled

Im a trainee driver 16 weeks into my training, I’m on traction at the moment but it will be interesting to see you do these rules videos. 👍🏻

I hope there will be more KZfaq channels like yours. For people like me who are endlessly curious about their interests, it's refreshing to have someone answering all the questions that traditionally could only be answered if you were an actual driver. Great video!

Always a joy speaking to signallers aka “the boaby”, from my point of view (technician on pendolino fleet) I love a good GSM-R fault 😂, always go for 1900 ✅ echo test

Thank you so much for posting this video. I got a job on the railway last year & I'd love a drivers job in the future. Your video is so helpful & informative. I had a driver say to me on the platform this week, "I'll SG the signaller" when I asked him if he wanted "belling" out. I didn't know what he meant, but I do now! 😄

I wish I had you as an instructor/ teacher like you when I did my classroom training.

The only contact I’ve had with a train driver was when I asked to put my bicycle into the luggage compartment, at the front of an HST125 about 35 years ago at Edinburgh Waverley. It was a bank holiday. The helpful person opened the door with difficulty but he so positively stank of alcohol and declared himself to be the driver……….that I was astonished. The train traveled so slowly to London and I thought just as well.

Victimizing signalers 😂, I’m a signalman controller/safetysupervisor at a concentrated signalbox, it’s so recognizable 😂😂😂

In my area, if a driver is approaching a red signal or a platform and they receive "contact signaller" it usually means the signaller wants to give you info/instructions when you're at a stand at the sig/platform. If you're asked to contact the signaller between sections, it usually means they want to exchange non urgent information whilst you're still moving.

the fact that ive been wanting to want watch this for months but still havent proves that i have problems

Very good overview of a pretty obscure topic. You mentioned the predecessors to GSM-R (NRN and CSR), I recall seeing a training film about railway communications protocols and difficulties in communications from the early 2000s (made by SPA Films, which was also coincidentally based in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent), and one of the drivers in that film straight-up said that the NRN cab radio system (which was still widely-used at that time) was rubbish and often didn't work properly (or the quality was so poor it was almost impossible to exchange information), so there was a very good reason for changing it.

Great video, I've been looking for a long time for operational details of how to use GSM-R so thank you very much for the explanation. Looking forward to part 3 👍

Very informative Richard. Thank you. Looking forward to part 2.

Welcome back... was wondering about you only yesterday here in LeviNZ

I love your Chanel I’m 14 right now! And my dream job is to work for South Western Railway. Amazing video!

Great video. Very clear explanation. You are the teacher to my curiosity!

Surprised to see you pop into my recommended list again! I look forward to seeing more of these kind of videos :)

I loved this video man. Great work. Keen for more of this content.

Excellent!

The business of wrong routing reminds me of being a Secondman many moons ago on the Great Eastern Mainline, and the driver I was working with started slowing to a stop because we had a green signal where he was expecting a double yellow. It was the approach to Bow Junction, working a Class 5 (empty coaches) train from Liverpool Street to Thornton Fields Carriage Sidings. Usually, you'd get 'checked down' by the signaller to a suitable speed to negotiate the divergent line speed with a No1 route indicator arm on the signal protecting the junction from the Down Main to the Down Cambridge line, then a little further on to the permissively signalled A or B lines for entering Thornton Fields. We'd been signalled as though continuing straight on along the Main. Once the driver had brought us to a stand at the junction signal, got down on the ballast to use a signal post telephone and explain what we needed, we still had to wait another two minutes before the signal would clear for us as a safety feature in case the signaller had changed our route incorrectly. It was a really inconvenient place operationally to get delayed as it was quite an intensive service even back then, so there was a high chance of delaying one or more trains that may have been following us.

Great video.

Interesting video! I had moved onto LU by the time GSMR was being introduced. We had CSR on the 165/166 units which was ok and a big improvement on the old NRN!

Brilliant

Really great video! I also live in the southeast of England and am looking to become a trainee driver so I can't wait to watch your videos and learn for when I apply for a role. Many thanks.

Thank you to recommendations, gsmr ASMR close enough I guess

I would say that the when you should use the urgent call button, is when something happens that the signaller needs to be made aware of, i.e. drunk people messing around on stations, broken or missing signals. And the Big red stop button for serious stuff, i.e. trespassers, debris on the line, derailments etc...

Shed Rail was a genius move! Also I would never put in the effort to do three takes!!!

Hi Richard, I have always wanted to know how the GSM-R is operated. Although I have seen the GSM-R radios in trains here in the Netherlands, and they look different from yours. But in general they will work similar. Funny in TS on several UK lines you have the UK GSM-R and on the London-Brighton route, the one you have also made a video on, driving it, has the GSM-R working. Well at least the registration that is. Anyway, I am looking forward to part 2! Thanks for making these videos!

Very interesting how it works in other countries, all the best for u all ;)

I've just started my 240 hours. Would definitely make use of some rules videos!

Hi, your videos are really helpful, good and informative, just one thing I would like to say that if you speak slowly would be really greater. Thanks for uploading your videos.

Hi, loving the content, can you give an example of an urgent call using the yellow button, thanks 🙏

Most people watching this are probably made curious by GMSR since train sim devs simulate it.

Curious how different the radio system we Drivers (passenger electric) use here in Queensland, Aus, versus what you guys use. However, I believe we’re shifting from our open channel digital radios to GSM-R with the introduction of ETCS.

Hi dad rail I have. A question this is more to do with a guard and can a guard have a handset radio and secondly. Can a guard make/receive calls from different locations/trains and people?

Brilliant, like the pace thank you. On a completely different subject. I have noticed that grade, eg banks. Are these no longer an issue. Does this means that the modern traction is far more powerful. Does this mean a newly laid track have higher or steeper grades. Thank you

What happens if two emergency group calls are started by two drivers witnessing the same emergency in the same cell area? Always wondered how the signaller would deal with these two calls at the same time.

How does the unit tell where you are if signal 30 would be identified by 030 and let's say signal 2030 would also be indentified by 030?

And they said it would be fantastic and compared to CSR much better but in my experience isn't as great as we were told.

I thought GSMR training would be part of a drivers training course, does it not apply now that information contained in publications etc should not be given to the general public.

All well and good until you work for a company that regards the rule book as an inconvenience rather than a safety manual

Hii I m from India Can I apply for train driver in UK

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Signal: AD### GSM-R: Incoming Call. Signaller Hastings