Ten foot or Six foot?

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Considering doing a night school course ' Rail engineering Level 3'.
What kind of job might need that qualification ?

 

A lot - but from what I can see is it is essentially an apprenticeship or A level grade, so you'd still need to pick a speciality afterwards. But it'll put you in good stead for a job with NR or a TOC.

 

I cannot really see the point of this thread: there has never been any confusion i know of regarding the position of 6' or 10'. There are many places where you can find cess/US/UF/DS/DF/cess and cess/US/DS/UF/DF/cess on the same line and the 10' will just divide two pairs of tracks whether they be paired by direction or speed or to separate a siding or loop from the nearest running line. This has nothing to do with any supposed set in stone policy of some pre nationalisation or pre grouping company.

 

South of York between Holgate and Copmanthorpe the tracks run Up Down Up Down.
You would therefore expect the spacing to be 6ft / 10ft / 6ft. So the 10ft should act as it should, separating pairs of tracks.
Not so
The actual spacing is 10ft / 6ft/ 10ft. ( I know because I had to measure them for a renewal)

Anyone care to answer why?
Historically they have always been in this arrangement.

 

Are (were) there bridge piers encouraging a centre pair and two outliers?

 

No bridges or drainage that I am aware of that would account for this.

 

Just had a thought.
There were yards either side of the ECML here at Dringhouses.
That may have been a reason, with a through goods line at a 6ft either side.

 

Either side of a pair of lines there should be a position of safety and that is what the 10' is for, without knowing the location you mention i would hazard a guess that the two outer lines that you describe are slows, goods lines or loops which in this case means there is a P.o.S. either side of each outer track and either side of the two mains which are the pair.