Train Authorities

Question 1

Why are train authorities used?

Answer 1

In the event of an obstruction (including a disabled train), or system failures

Question 2

How are train authorities issued?

Answer 2

Handed or dictated (NOT transmitted)

Question 3

How much a train authority be completed? (5)

Answer 3

Blue/black ink with block letters
No erasures, alterations or abbreviations
On the prescribed form
Brief and clear
Containing only essential information

Question 4

When would a train authority be verified, and by whom?

Answer 4

Verified by the Train Controller:
When the driver doesn’t understand something on the form
When the driver doesn’t receive the TA directly from the Train Controller or the Signaller
When a relief driver is relieving another driver (and the TA is in effect)

Question 5

What information must be read to the Train Controller when verifying a train authority? (5)

Answer 5

Train Authority number
Red serial number
Date
Time
Relevant contents and instructions

Question 6

When would a protecting train be used (in the case of a TA), and where should it be located?

Answer 6

When a wrong line movement is being performed
Minimum 100m from the end of the movement of the other train

Question 7

When arriving at a signal box in the rear (on a TA), where must the train be stopped and what authority is needed?

Answer 7

Stopped 100m before outermost set of points (or platform, if there aren’t any points)
The controlling signaller needs to give permission, as you are entering station limits

Question 8

After completing a TA at a locally controlled location, what does the driver do?

Answer 8

Hand the TA form to the signaller (who cancels it)

Question 9

After completing a TA at a remotely controlled location, what does the driver do?

Answer 9

Cancel the TA themselves (‘cancelled’, time, date, and signature across the front) and notify Train Controller of the time the TA was cancelled.