10/5/2007

Day Three,
When Anthony arrived today we had to go to Leeds straight away as we would be covering LOM's (Location Operations Managers) duties today, which basically covers the correct running of signal boxes. We picked up Mark's car and the first box we were to visit was Mill Lane just outside Bradford Interchange. As we went over to Bradford Anthony pointed out the railway lines we were passing under or passing over, and we finally arrived at Mill Lane, we put the hi-vis on and had to raise our arms to an approaching 158 coming into Bradford, this is just to confirm to the driver we are aware he is there. Into the box we go and meet a nice chap in there, Anthony starts to do the checklist for the box and I take a seat and take photo's. It was here that the signaller had to deal with a tamper that was doing about 20mph from Halifax which made it had for the signaller as he was delaying express trains behind. The tamper trundled into Bradford and headed back to Halifax.

After we left the box we got some dinner from Sainsburys and ate it in the offices under Halifax signal box. We then went up to do the box audit where there was a nice man working the box, after an un-eventful audit we left Halifax for Leeds, before we dropped the car off Anthony showed me around Whitehall yard and we saw the tamper that had been route-learning earlier in the day.

We dropped the car off, and went home.