Institution of Railway Operators – Operators' Handbook Operators' Handbook Third Edition ebook (N-Member) | Page 7

Contents
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
3.16
3.17
3.18
3.19
3.20
3.21
3.22
3.23
3.24
3.25
3.26
3.27
3.28
3.29
3.30
3.31
3.32
3.33
3.34
Changes to Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Local Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Train Regulation Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Control Office Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Co-Location and Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Service Disruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Infrastructure and Maintenance Control . . . . . . . . . 116
Fleet Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Train Cleaning and Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Control Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Control Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Event Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Roles of First Line Operations Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Train Driving Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Driver Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Driver Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Driver Competence Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Professional Driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Management of Train Driving Operations . . . . . . . . . 126
Station Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Train Dispatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Platforming Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Disruption Management at Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Passenger Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Security and Emergency Management . . . . . . . . . . 132
Customer Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Fare Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Train Dispatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Section B
Delivering Freight Services
3.35 Freight Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
3.36 Rail-freight Business Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
3.37 Customer Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
3.38 Paths and Access Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
3.39 Industry Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
3.40 Route Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
3.41 Train speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
3.42 Train length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
3.43 Overall Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
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