Topics

• Fibre design

  Loose-tube and high-capacity fibre, joints, spurs, splicing, loss budgets, pigtails.

• Copper design & immunisation

  Unit-twin cable, enclosures, screening conductor, induced voltages, immunity testing.

• Cable route, survey & installation

  Surveying a route, troughing, ducts, UTXs, buried and station routes, laying cable.

• Housings, earthing, power & masts

  Trackside housings, standby power and batteries, radio mast earthing and lightning protection, earth maintenance.

• Design process, assurance & records

  GRIP stages, AiP, design review, installation control, T&C, asset data, competence.

• GSM-R & radio

  Works near GSM-R, air-interface KPIs, RF clearance, modems, radio structures, GSM-R capacity and availability for ETCS.

• Lineside telephones & NTPs

  SPTs, positioning and labelling, product spec, network terminating points.

• IP networks, transmission & security

  Sub-access IP principles, systems architecture, security hardening, Ethernet commissioning.

• Station systems

  PA/VA, CIS, CCTV, DOO, SISS asset management.

• FTN D&D specs & typical drawings

  The FTN (D&D) design manuals, cable and route specs, labelling and as-built rules, plus the typical drawings for spurs, nodes, joint bays and manholes.

• Maintenance & faulting

  Fault priorities, maintenance regimes and the 30181 work-instruction modules.