Anyway, today see's our intrepid group having to deal with outsiders (i.e a Guard's course!!) and we started by doing our practical Short Circuit Bar training. At Basingstoke training centre there is a small track rig which means we can do the training safely and allows mistakes to be made and this is where we were taught to use a paddle to get ballast out the way and how to apply the bar safely. Sadly, it isn't live anymore and so we all had to shout "bang" to simulate the noise it would normally make but it was still a good excuse to go out into the sun today!
We then had a trip up to Clapham Yard to have a practice at evacuating trains. This saw a fun trip to a colleagues home first as we had some spare time and with three of us pilled into his small Saxo, that was a laugh to say the least!
I can now also tick of Whitton station as somewhere I have never been.
Still at Clapham Yard we sat on a spare train in the shed while a volunteer had to get all 23 of us of the train quickly while we pretended to be useless passengers ignoring the PA and being generally useless!
Still leaving a train via a ladder is an experience trying to get away from a pretend fire and I have to admit that I was being insolent by plugging headphones in and ignoring the guard as he tried to help.
Below are some of my esteemed colleagues "saving" passengers lives!
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