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Roles & responsibilities
Duties from the 2025 working arrangements, plus the conference schedule.
Autumn Controller
Desk 06:00–18:00, Derby EMCC. Outside these hours contact Derby Incident Control. Duties grouped per the working arrangements §7:
Communication & Reporting
- Issue the AM (03:00) and PM (15:00) adhesion wires and the 18:00 Autumn Control Log.
- Issue the 12:00 Autumn Message drum-beat.
- Issue missed-sites wires / Treatment Failure Advice ASAP after a failure.
- Create CCIL entries (ROLA / WSTCF) and maintain the daily suspect log and master log.
- Submit Forms A/B to the NOC by 18:00 (high risk) / close of play; F3.17A daily.
- Report on the 08:15 call; support the 10:00 RHTT and 10:30 Autumn conferences.
Monitoring
- MetDesk forecast, red/black alerts and the NRWS portal.
- RHTT circuit delivery vs plan, missed sites and recovery plans.
- TGA status and defects; RCM alarms and WSTCF reports.
- Season KPI counts (ROLA / WSTCF / Cat A SPAD / Station Overrun) split EM | Lincolnshire.
- Record of special working (Appendix K), circulated daily.
Mitigation
- Invoke the GBW area trigger and arrange special working at all high-risk sites when met.
- Request GSM-R acknowledged broadcasts (2+ ROLAs same location within 3 hours).
- Arrange MOM / leaf-fall team response, railhead treatment and wheelset checks.
- Coordinate imposition and withdrawal of Reg 3.5 / double block / TS11 arrangements.
- Arrange missed-site recovery and proactive working on red/black forecasts.
Train Running Controller
- Covers autumn duties outside desk hours (18:00–06:00), including the overnight AM wire and ad-hoc missed-sites wires.
- Arranges cautioning of trains and GSM-R broadcasts with signallers.
- Contact via cs-lne-der-02a@networkrail.co.uk.
Signallers
- Record time loss and complete the ROLA form with the driver (Section 1) and signaller details (Section 2: box, date, time, headcode, first train after RHTT, exceptionally-poor-adhesion listing, cautioning method).
- Apply TW1 §28 (including the 30-minute rule) and TS11 where instructed.
- Record events in TIGER; caution trains (stopping, or on the move via GSM-R).
MOMs & Leaf-Fall Teams
- Railhead scrubbing and citric cleansers; reactive Interflon application.
- Hand sanding in strips of no more than 20m, staggered on alternate rails.
- Railhead swabs per NR/L3/OPS/045/4.07.
- Photographs labelled by line, location and mileage — e.g. 'Down Line at Bingham Level Crossing, 119m 56ch'.
- 9 MOM depots: Bedford, Chesterfield, Derby, Elstree, Kentish Town, Kettering, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham.
LOM
- Depot and vehicle audits: sand levels, citric cleaner stock, swab kits.
Staff welfare
- Lone workers: welfare check-ins every 30 minutes.
Conference schedule
| When | What | Attendance |
|---|---|---|
| 08:15 weekdays | EM Performance Risk Alliance call — verbal autumn report | SDS or Autumn Controller |
| 10:00 Mon/Wed/Fri | RHTT conference call — circuit delivery, missed sites, variations | Autumn Control, SCO, GBRf |
| 10:30 Mon/Wed/Fri | Autumn Conference (Teams, PowerBI-driven) | NR Control, NR Ops (Lincoln/Derby/Bedford/Leicester), S&T, Off Track, SCO, EMR Control, EMR Drivers, Seasons Delivery/Performance. GTR / XC / Northern / freight operators compulsory after a safety incident. |