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| Any good video resources/guides on electro-mechanical/electronic interlocking, from a control room standpoint? 20/07/2022 at 00:50 #147271 | |
frederiaJ
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Hello! I'm a graduate rail engineer student from a country in Southeast Asia, and I'd really like to know if there are any visual (particularly video) guides on how interlocking actually works, particularly from the control room. I've read and learned a bunch of the theoretical stuff from the classroom, but for some reason we weren't given much hands-on or visual guides on how to actually work this stuff haha. I started playing SimSig to get the gist of it, and while it is a blast, I feel like I'd need to know a lot more before I can really get used to the real thing. My search on the YouTubes yields some results, although a lot of the videos are kinda sparse and low-quality (though those are better than nothing I suppose!). What I was hoping for was like a really well-made instructional video on how to operate the VDUs (like how to properly set the entry-exit points and locking the route and stuff haha), although I guess that's asking for too much? I don't suppose something like that would be made available to the consumer public either lol (I'd probably have to intern at a railway/signaling company here or something to learn that hands-on...) But anyways, if anyone has any pointers for me, I'd really appreciate it! Thank you all in advance! Last edited: 20/07/2022 at 00:51 by frederiaJ Reason: None given Log in to reply |
| Any good video resources/guides on electro-mechanical/electronic interlocking, from a control room standpoint? 20/07/2022 at 17:12 #147278 | |
GeoffM
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There a whole set of videos made in the 1950s-80s by the British Transport Films link. Yes, they're old, but fundamentally still valid in many ways. A regular on this forum, Ian from Australia, produced a bunch of videos in the UK and Australia. Link Not videos but the Institute of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) have a wealth of documentation, including the Green Book series, again old but still relevant. They also produced two textbooks but I can't find them currently. One was mostly green, arranged landscape style; the other also landscape but had a picture of a VDU on it - I think this was called Railway Signalling & Control Systems. As to how to exactly operate a VDU-based workstation, this is not quite so easily obtainable as the companies that make them don't exactly share their user manuals. There are a couple of local chapters of the IRSE in the region you mention. They often arrange site visits. Might be worth looking into. SimSig Boss Log in to reply The following user said thank you: leigh |