At the end of the training the delegate will be able to:

• Identify and describe the function of each of the component parts of the track infrastructure including:
  • Plain line and switches and crossings including rails, sleepers, bearers, ballast, fastenings, pads, insulators, clips, fishplates bolts, tie bars, stretcher bars, switch heaters and lubricators
  • Joints, including insulated joints
  • Adjustment switches
  • Drains
  • Vegetation
  • Civil Engineering Structures, including cuttings, embankment and culverts
  • Signalling equipment including signals; point machines, cranks and rodding; AWS inductors; TPWS track equipment; axle counters; on track and lineside cables
  • OHL equipment including structures; catenaries; earth, red and yellow bonds