Our mentor
and inspiration, during his incarnartion as Guard Ancromarty, shows his usual devotion to duty.
Anything you read here may be true. Sometimes only the names have been
changed to protect the still-employed.
Let's face it. Truth is stranger
than fiction.
There are times when the railway is its own worst enemy. For example, consider the simple question of how to get from A to B. Shouldn't be hard? Now read the amazing routeing question in six parts (of course, the RossRail Routeing Guide reads "It's valid if I say it is and not otherwise"). Clive Feather has now done an analysis of routeing which led to the new part five.
Our Man Up Front explains Route Knowledge; so does Our High Speed Correspondent.
Plus some odds 'n' ends from the real railway.
Sometimes the truth is so unbelievable that we have to dress it up with whimsy. See for yourself! Try Customer Service for Conductors - a test paper.
If that's too hard, just read a few extracts from the RossRail Rulebook.
From time to time trains expose a sense of wittiness [or at least half of it - Ed.]. We have the Ross & Eric show, plus our first software release: SimUGuard.
Meanwhile, with the planned privatization of London Underground, RossRail's
London Division is preparing their bid.
For those readers wondering what on earth all this "RossRail" stuff is, well, think of RossRail as the railway company that embodies the railway we'd all like to see. Alternatively, you could just think of it as a bunch of railwaymen, past and present, letting off steam (or diesel or, in one case, sparks from the third rail)
I hope that this site will be expanding over the next few months. But for now, let me leave you in the hands of the trusty RossRail staff.
Much of the material on Rossrail Central was written by Clive D W Feather and is reproduced by permission. Clive's own real world routeing guide can be found at his main website here
RossRail - We don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.