Peter Wrote:mangeshwakankar Wrote:HI,
Is there any reference books for this module.
Whether looking at doing the control table question or the essay questions, the background of "why" is the key, so a couple of thoughts here on some stuff that would be useful (UK Mainline case)
One place that you may start, although it is not a textbook as such, is NR/SP/SIG10097. This is interlocking independent high level rules giving step by step cases for what should happen given a set of initial conditions and the some event. It therefore does not strictly tell you what the control table entry would be for something, but gives you some of the background as to WHY there might need to be a certain type of entry.
For specific examples of presentation NR/GN/SIG11202 specifies this for Network Rail in the UK. While this is possibly of limited use in that you don't necessarily want to get hung up on learning verbatim a particular railway authority's layout (the actual layout that you use for the exam is not the issue, nor is the wording that you use to describe a given box - more the issue is have you conveyed what an entry there means and have you therefore got the right entry in the box), but if you are taking PJW's advice about looking at real world examples in post three of the "control tables" thread, this will help you understand what some of the entries mean if you are looking at a "real" control table if they have followed this standard.
I do not know if you have access to the NR standards (their catalogue is online at Technical Indexes but requires a subscription for login). I'm not sure what NR's view is on their standards being made available for "education" - I have not posted copies here in respect of their copyright notice. Does someone from NR have a thought on this?
"Railway Signalling" edited by OS Nock (ISBN 0713627247) (and I think still available from the IRSE) is on the core reference list for exam material. Pages 30-49 give word based descriptions of WHY controls would be present in a given scenario without being specific about how this would be shown on a control table.
Can you confirm whether your reference NR/SP/SIG10097 is correct as I have been unable to find this within the NR standards.
Ta
Steve