scope:

General section

What this book is for

This book provides a general overview of:

• possession protection methods

• the arrangements for passing engineer's trains and mechanised vehicles into and out of a possession

• special traction current arrangements for a possession.

• It details the responsibilities of the different activities involved in providing safe and efficient protection for a possession.

This book covers the principles associated with protecting a possession. It gives details of:

• how to get permission to take and give up the possession

• how to define the possession limits how to implement and remove the protection

• how to pass engineer's trains into, through and out of a possession

• how to move a mechanised vehicle into and out of a possession

• the special traction current arrangements, isolations and short circuits.

This book gives the steps that need to be followed to safely implement the protection.