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Safety of Railway Signalling and Communications
Sub Forums: 2011 Mock Mod1, Past Paper attempts, Miscellaneous topics, Studying for module 1, and 1 more.

Signalling the layout
Sub Forums: Calculations: Past papers & Exercises, Indian Railway Practices, Miscellaneous Module 2 Topics, Attempted Layouts, and 1 more.

Signalling principles
Sub Forums: Indian Railway Signalling Principles, Control Tables- general, Control Tables- Past Papers, Principles Queries etc, and 3 more.

Communications principles

Signalling & Control Equipment, Applications Engineering
Sub Forums: TC Calcs, Fault Trees, Train Detection, Points, and 10 more.

Communications Equipment, Applications Engineering

Systems, Management & Engineering
Sub Forums: Question attempts, Specific topics, Studying for Mod 7

Introduce youself and get some initial advise re where to start

Contemplating the exam? Some thoughts about how / where to start

Share ideas about how we can get more people interested and in a position to take (and pass) the exam.

Get together with others who are interested in your area

Material relating to 2013 London Study Group meetings

Share information re where and when you are meeting
Sub Forums: Bristol, Derby, London, Reading, and 3 more.

Some ideas for events that may occur in 2013

A record of the events held in 2012

A record of the events held in 2011

A record of the events held in 2010

A record of the events held in 2009

A record of the events held pre 2009

The latest combined list of events.

What other things are going on / what opportunities exist to expand knowledge and experience?

How useful do you find the current offering? e.g: What do you think is missing? What do you think is superfluous?

Comments on Syllabus, Reading List etc

The IRSE Examiners have produced a document containing some sample answers and their comments

A popular request- but unable to include on this site. Obtain the most recent year from www.irse.org and get more when receive the Study DVD

Links to dropbox account to download certain specific large files. [N.B. Some company IT systems prevent access / downloading]

A place to share links to other useful websites

A place to put useful "stuff" that is a good resource for others but not specific to any particular module

The place to discuss how to set about studying, where to start, what to use, revision techniques etc

If you don't want your identity known, post your attempts in this forum. These will not appear publicly and we'll post your offering and comment upon it in the relevant module area but respect your wish to remain anonymous.

Tips for optimising your performance in the exam itself

Are they in the right places?

A place for general exam feedback from the candidate's perspective

What things helped you and what caused you hassle?

Feedback in January by examiners re previous October's exam

How do you deal with the waiting? How do you open yours? Share your success or failure

The place to turn to if you are disappointed in your result

Study Group Leaders: share thoughts and resources, successes and failures. Arrange for speakers etc

What we can do for you and what you can do for us.

What would you do if you were in our shoes?

Discussions about the nitty gritty.

Information to guide the user around this website

The place to ask for help if you are finding it tough getting the forum to work for you.

Looking for an attachment to download? Use the spreadsheet to find in which thread a specific one is filed .....

Somewhere to discuss thoughts about improving this forum

Somewhere to post info that does not seem to fit elsewhere. N.B. This may then inspire the moderators to create a more fitting category for the post and others like it.....

More general queries