Rail Traction
Maintains the 1,500 volt direct current overhead wiring system, traction bonds and section insulators on the metropolitan rail network during night possessions, performs traction switching to schedule and tests and verifies traction installations for the rail client.
What the team is accountable for
- Inspect and maintain traction overhead wiring and catenary
- Replace droppers, registration arms and section insulators
- Install and maintain rail traction bonds
- Perform rail traction switching operations to schedule
- Work within rail corridor possessions under track protection
- Test and verify traction installations before handback
How we know it is working
Who works here
Trent Baumgartner
Manages the Sunshine depot and the night possession program for the rail client, and has worked on traction overhead systems for fourteen years.
Where the work is recorded
Work Orders and Crew Allocation
Records every planned and reactive job on the networks with the client, apparatus, allocated crew, access requirements, hours worked and completion status.
Access Authority and Permit Register
The operations centre record of every access authority, vicinity authority, test permit and rail traction access requested, issued and cancelled, with the isolation and earthing state confirmed.
Switching Program Register
Records every distribution, substation and rail traction switching program from writing through validation, direction and completion, with the writer, checker, controller and each step's confirmation.