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[email protected] · April 4th 17, 07:42 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
19:05:47 on Mon, 3 Apr 2017, remarked:
If there is no mobile phone coverage, what is the guard going to
do?

Network Rail have their own communication system which will work in
those areas.

Do they issue GSM-R handsets to guards (genuine question).

No. But the one in the back- or intermediate- cab can easily be turned
on. That doesn't, of course, help if the train involved is an HST or is
loco-hauled with the DVT leading (or with no DVT).

Surely, every train has at least two cabs somehow? We don't have
single-cab as the only locos on passenger trains.

A loco-hauled train will have two cabs, but how does the guard easily
get to the rear cab of the loco?

Presumably along the trackside.

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Colin Rosenstiel