Typical Timetable

2.3.

ISSUING AND SUPERSEDING TIMETABLES

All employees whose duties are connected with train operation must

secure and carry a copy of the current employees' timetable.

They must

study it carefully and familiarize themselves with all portions affecting

their duties. Such persons are required to sign a receipt showing that they

have received a copy. Each time a new timetable is issued, employees must

note the time and the date it becomes effective and study it carefully for

changes in train schedules; special rules seldom change. The old timetable

must be destroyed or turned in. Because of changes in train schedules, to

leave an out-of-date timetable laying around is to invite trouble.

2.4.

TYPICAL TIMETABLE

Appendix II consists of a sample timetable based on the double-track

division illustrated in figure 1.4.

The timetable contains some of the

information specified in paragraph 2.2.

The purpose is general

familiarization only; in actual practice it would require considerably more

information and detail to cover all operating procedures and details of a

division 137 kilometers long. Most of the special instructions could also

apply to the single-track division in figure 1.1. However, the time figures

on the two pages showing the schedules of the 12 trains would be changed

completely because of two-way operation over a single track.

2.5.

TRAIN SHEET

The Dispatcher's Record of Train Movements, usually called the train

sheet, is maintained by the train dispatcher and is an important written

record in the dispatching office.

It shows at all times the picture of

train movements over the division, what trains are in transit, and the time

each one passes each station along the line.

Knowing the running time

between two stations, the dispatcher can determine at a glance whether a

train is having difficulty in its progress.

At the same time, he knows

whether it is exceeding established speed limits. When the rear end of a

train passes a telegraph station, the operator reports the exact time to the

dispatcher who enters it on the train sheet in the column opposite the

station's call letters. When the operator reports the train's time, he is

said to "OS" the train. Using the train sheet in dispatching operations is

discussed further in the following subparagraphs.

a. Typical train sheet. Annex B shows a train sheet as it would appear

in use on the single-track division in figure 1.1. The columns to the left

of the station call letters indicate the westward

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